Word: mort
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...convinced that people will laugh at almost anything Mort Sahl says. He comes out on stage in non-descript pants and a yellow cardigan sweater, and there he is:... MORT' SAHL, devastating critic of our times, about whom everyone has read so much, in Time magazine. He stands for a minute, scratches his head, gestures erratically once or twice, and then he's off, saying funny things about politics and the situation of the world. He has a marvelous stage presence, an easy stance, an endearing nervousness and an odd tone of voice, which makes otherwise pallid remarks assume...
...Francisco's hungry 1, strapping, curly-haired Gregory Millar used to appear with his friend Mort Sahl, belting out pop songs in a voice vaguely reminiscent of Mario Lanza's. At the New York Philharmonic's first Saturday-night concert, Tenor Millar was sitting in a box at Carnegie Hall listening to Conductor-Pianist Leonard Bernstein conclude a fal tering performance of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 1. Minutes later, and without warning, Millar was on the podium conducting the Philharmonic himself...
During the past months. Adlai Stevenson has caught Mort Sahl's act more than a dozen times in Chicago, and the two have become fast-tongued friends. Last week, Sahl recalled a recent visit to the gentleman farmer's diggings at Libertyville. "He doesn't stand on ceremony or have any protocol, and yet the dignity is indigenous. Only trouble is he's so charming he usually steals your girl...
...repulsive cover would have been delightful in French: Sahl Mort...
...Mort Sahl is a true subversive. He is advocating the overthrow of the Government by "farce," which he may do if Washington doesn't beat...