Word: mr
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Judging from Hanoi's past performance, I imagine that the Communists will reject Mr. Johnson's peace plan. They will interpret the President's withdrawal as a sign of weakness and an indication that the American people are nearly ready to give up. With these thoughts the Communists will step up their offensive. Americans, in turn, will be outraged at the enemy's acts of war and lack of humility. The criers will come to stand behind the President and go for a military victory. What politician would refuse an all-out draft campaign...
...forget about competitive swimming. Or we can go to Santa Clara and turn you over to George Haines"-coach of the famed Santa Clara Swim Club and of the 1968 U.S. Olympic swimming team. Mark opted for Santa Clara and the Spitzes moved, a decision that now forces Mr. Spitz to commute 100 miles each day to work...
...night-school class in Americanization, the English language is a terrifying octopus at which they slash, tentacle by tentacle, in a melee of dialect comedy and amusing linguistic boners. Kaplan is in a one-man class by himself. If the teacher, an earnest young Ivy League graduate named Mr. Parkhill (Gary Krawford) rebukes him, Kaplan rebukes right back. Kaplan answers twice as many questions as are ever asked, and holds the attention of his fellow class mates so volubly that Mr. Parkhill has trouble lecturing a word in edgewise...
...cans. The Smurtz Vian wrote was a sort of ambulatory picture of Dorian Grey, a silent and spongy presence who absorbed power from the gratuitous violence continually inflicted on him, an embodiment of the unrecognized depths of violence latent in a comically arch-typical family group. The Smurtz of Mr. Moss's staging is still a physical butt, who in the progress of three acts is whipped, stabbed, clouted and generally knocked about by a group of people who refuse even to recognize his existence. But dressed in a vinyl union suit blazoned with commercial trade-marks (Bufferin...
...heart of the confusion is Mr. Moss's personal touch. Some of his talent is apparent in a number of details: fine readings, well-pointed jokes, carefully arranged stage groupings. But something too much of his ability has been devoted to an attempt to avoid a confrontation with the text. His interpolations (among them a parody soap opera by distinguished Warholian, Gerard Malanga, and a number of creaky, smutty japes) are as distortive as they are entertaining. His choices in directing characters (especially the daughter of the family, who Mary Moss portrays with special spirit as a flaming youth...