Word: nut
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...depths of the Depression, Connally's father mustered enough money to send John to the University of Texas, where he studied law, stacked books in the library for 17? an hour, picked up pocket money as college campus representative for Beech-Nut Chewing Gum. He ran for student-body president-mainly because it paid $30 a month-and won. He also met Idanell Brill, a coed who had won such titles as University of Texas Sweetheart, Cactus Beauty and Relay Queen. They were married...
...fiasco, attended largely by crackpots ("You know, the ones who write books about their trips to Venus"). No one scorns them more than Brown. But, like them, he cannot give up his obsession. "I'll save (I will) this apple world," he says at last, "this sweet nut, this beauty, beauty. Ah, listen, hear the bugle blow. Beleaguered pioneers, hold out! Only hold...
Everyone does contribute to an exacerbating and profound disharmony; but everyone is such a nut that their trials seem unbelievably aboard. These few days could be taken as a Yiddish parody of No Eric and Jack or The submission: It is Simckes, not Jonesco's. Ma who abouts at her husband, "Zelo! Did I say you could have strawberries? I said farina and you know it. Oh, I see you've disobeyed me and taken off your pants...
Into this madhouse prances Vossen Gleich with an admonitory "Oi, Shemanskys!" He pours out a stream of instructions on how to live together and how to mourn. Gleich is a nut too, but different from the Shemanskys: fortified with faith in ritual and his own deep warmth, Gleich temporarily stuns the Shemanskys into their tradition: to mourn, to rend their clothes, to talk compassionately of the dead idiot child. The Shemanskys, however, soon evict Gleich (who had moved in with Mrs. Charpolsky) and, as Ma dictates, do not mourn for Zadie (the Shemansky grandfather and financial supporter who died...
...last weekend of 1963, the scythe went through six Broadway shows, and at least $500,000 of investors' money disappeared with them. Mary Martin's new musical Jennie was the biggest money loser, since its nut was $550,000 and it ran only ten weeks. The best play to fall was Jean Anouilh's The Rehearsal (it lost $40,000). Other foldees: Terence Rattigan's Man and Boy ($90,000 down), The Irregular Verb to Love ($35,000), Love and Kisses ($100,000), Double Dublin ($45,000). This crop was quickly followed by Tennessee Williams...