Word: partner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about," says White. When his term with Vinson was up, White went to two of Washington's biggest law firms in search of a job. They liked his record but turned him away when they heard his ambitious terms: he would not join unless he could become a partner within two years...
White returned to Colorado in 1947, became a partner in a respected Denver law firm. He built a reputation in 14 years there as a versatile lawyer who could handle complex corporation cases, tax matters, contract disputes or general law. Politically, he had done little more than some dabbling in Denver's Democratic ward politics when, in 1960, Jack Kennedy asked his help in rounding up Colorado delegates at the Democratic convention. After the convention, Bobby Kennedy asked White to head the national Citizens for Kennedy group and was impressed by White's softspoken yet persuasive wooing...
...throws a bar mitzvah for a partner's son and intones throatily. "To a boy. fare well. To a man, hello!" The boy's father, thanks to Harry, is about to say hello to a prison warden when Harry's Mama breaks misty-eyed into a song called Eat a Little Something (suitable subtitle: :I'll Cry To day), chiding her son for neglecting his character. It falls to Harry's old boss to give him a second chance and a hearteningly fresh moral viewpoint. In one sentence: it is better to be rich...
Even the intimate duets were impersonal. Moving ever so slowly, hanging by the knees from a partner's shoulders, the dancers stared blankly from zombie-like deadpans. Occasionally the master himself relaxed into a sneer, but for the most part it was only by the glistening of sweat or the trembling of a thigh or a bent knee that one could be sure the dancers were human, and not just sinuous, supple machines...
...point in Antic Meet, the finale, Cunningham offered his partner a big red rose; when snubbed, he hurried off (face buried in flower) pouting like a little boy. Antic Meet was a study in absurdity. It told something of a story, a bit of a romance, with all the humor and the farce of a flirtation. The choreography really took off, exploiting the imagination and freedom of Cunningham's style: kicking splits swooping from the air to the floor, some acrobatics, and a St. Vitus Dance frenzy. In a spirit of whimsy and joy, the dancers switched from the deadpan...