Word: penned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...left a performance of Peter Shaffer's Royal Hunt of the Sun, I tried to recall the last drama of such stature to come from a British pen. Anything on Pinter, Osborne, Fry, Eliot? No. Then I realized that Royal Hunt is the finest British play since Shaws Saint Joan burst on the boards four decades...
Martin Gottfried is not one of those New York drama critics who can doom a play with a wince of his pen. Nor can he do much to keep a show running. When he took his seat last week at the opening of Peter Shaffer's Royal Hunt of the Sun (see THEATER), pseudo-savvy first-nighters did not point him out with a knowing air. He is, after all, no more than the man on the aisle for Women's Wear Daily, trade paper to the women's fashion industry. As such...
...with vest, he held his first ceremonial bill-signing session in the hospital. After putting his signature on a law requiring automobile manufacturers to meet new exhaust-control standards beginning with 1968 models, he delivered a little homily on the perils of air pollution and duly handed out the pens, bestowing two on Michigan's Senator Pat McNamara. "You passed so damn much legislation," explained Lyndon. "Take an extra pen home with...
...back in harness, pulling forward rather than looking back. He signed some more bills in private, met with Cabinet officials, and presided at his first postoperative public ceremony, signing the $320 million Highway Beautification Act, otherwise known as "Lady Bird's bill." The First Lady got the first pen-and a smooch. Johnson observed there was "no better medicine" for him than the unobstructed view of fall foliage on his ride back from the hospital...
...drafting board has been set to music. What he has proved is that he is the sort of writer who needs a writer. When he leaned on Bernard Shaw, he produced the book for the musical masterpiece My Fair Lady With the late T. H. White to guide his pen, he wrote the passable Camelot. His unseen ally this time is John L. Balderston, who wrote Berkeley Square in 1929, and Balderston was apparently not meant for the ages...