Word: nones
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rocky even managed to offend the television crews at a Los Angeles press conference by insisting on dividing it into two parts-one for the general press, one for TV. The technique had worked well enough back East, but the Angelenos would have none of it. As the TV crews noisily packed up and marched out in a mass huff, Rockefeller observed wryly: "A lesson in how to win friends and influence people...
...ruptured hangnail. . . galloping consumption. . . homicidal leanings. . ." It was a riot--or so Vag thought until he began to wonder how the examining doctor would react. Even if he was only joking, it sounded awfully peculiar. With embarrassment, he blackened over all his answers and wrote in a bold hand, "NONE AT ALL," hoping that would take care...
...underwent a positively Pauline conversion. "A great play given a great production has come to Broadway," the Harvard community was told; "one must hang out all the old abused superlatives and this time mean them.... Here is a playright who is not afraid of beautiful literate language, and none too soon. He has rejuvenated the anemic field of Poetic Drama Since Shakespeare. J.B.'s quality of language and quality of thought make it one of the few plays worth paying Broadway's orchestra-seat ransoms to see.... a masterpiece ... one of the most distinguished dramatic triumphs of the modern theatre...
...wings of a goney, I would fly to my own native home; I would leave Desolation's cold weary ground, For right whales for us there is none...
...played by the Lowell Dramatic Group, Ghosts is almost vapid. The actors appear to observe the characters from the outside, often reciting lines as if they were participating in a first or second rehearsal. Each has a few good moments, each delivers occasional lines with gratifying conviction, but none is capable of sustaining the intensity which Ghosts requires...