Word: monkeyism
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...residents of Thayer North, Tuesday night's self-imposed curfew was like a trained monkey playing dead. The illegitimate announcement that the whole entry was on indefinite "Social Probation" was the logical conclusion to an intensive campaign of systematic "spring" proctor-baiting...
...years ago walked off Chicago's Civic Opera House stage just before he was supposed to stab his Carmen; or display such neurotic symptoms as getting too fat, e.g., Mario Lanza; or become overtly adventurous, e.g., Caruso was arrested for making a pass at a woman in the monkey house of the Central Park...
...form, spirit without substance. They became, in a word, gods. Or did they? On paper, the answer to this question would seem to nix the picture's intellectual respectability once and for all, but on the screen it makes King Kong look like an organ grinder's monkey, and will probably have the most skeptical scientist in the audience clutching wildly for his atomic pistol...
...Chicago's Blackstone Theater one evening last week, Adlai Stevenson appeared backstage to congratulate Actor Melvyn Douglas on his portrayal of the late Clarence Darrow in the "monkey trial" play, Inherit the Wind. Critic Stevenson had only one complaint about Douglas' performance. Chided he: "You didn't have to look straight at me when you delivered that line about William Jennings Bryan." The line: "I wonder how it feels to almost be President three times, with a skullful of undelivered inaugural speeches...
WOLFSON ALLY Alexander Rittmaster resigned from the Montgomery Ward board only one month after Louis Wolfson himself quit. Wolfson's sole remaining Monkey Ward director: Advertising Consultant Bernice Fitz-Gibbon...