Word: oddness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Back from a four-day swing through California, the President played host to 70-odd Congressmen and their wives at a White House party (see following story). Next day he swore in the St. Louis Cardinals' retired star Stan Musial as director of his Physical Fitness Program to succeed former Football Coach Bud Wilkinson, who aims to run for the Senate on the G.O.P. ticket in Oklahoma. "Stan the Man" looked around the crowded Cabinet Room with a broad grin, cracked: "If I'd known I had so many friends in Washington, I might have run for office...
...rough (but losing) play of New York's hockey Rangers. Maggie Smith sits with opera glasses in her Silver Spring, Md., apartment, spots sparrows, cardinals and titmice flitting among ten feeding stations and birdhouses. She sets out raisins, notes that "the mockingbird always takes two, four, never an odd number." Henry Cabot Lodge likes to walk in the Saigon zoo. With surprising delight, he tells how he once strolled too close to a tiger cage and the big cat sprayed him with urine. "The Vietnamese," he says, "tell me it's great good luck to have something like...
Over and above the economics of it is the fun. Those areas under the stairs that are so fine for hiding, the odd, unexpected rooms, the high ceilings-the wasted space, in short, which is so far from wasted. Says a Boston realtor who lives in a 74-year-old 15-roomer himself: "Of course, the basic appeal is a lot more room for less money. But beyond that-they're nicer, they're warmer, they're grander. You have the feeling that you're living in a real house...
...case anyone has been in hiding for the last two years, Beyond The Fringe is a series of 20-odd bits; many just acted out shaggy-dog jokes that set up a punch line. Three pansies don yellow rain bonnets and finally record basso profundo--a rugged TV ad for "the Man's cigarette." Other skits are extended and often scathing parodies like the first act closer, a merciless debunking of Britain's heroic World War II effort Listening to Dame Myra Hess (a scraggly gray wig accomplishes this transformation) play the moonlight sonata in those courageous British Museum Concerts...
...Englishman is very funny. But by the time Amis lets his ployman homeward plod his weary way, the reader finds his heart wrung with pity. In a puzzling way, the appalling Roger has endeared himself. It is not just that Roger himself in odd moments has recognized that he is a pretty dreadful character. "Very angst-producing, being a snob," he confesses to his mistress. Something deeper is involved. The secret may be that the totally selfish man is pathetic as well as detestable; Roger has some of the heartbreaking quality present in the rapt self-absorption of a child...