Word: perkiest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rhinoceros (translated from the French of Eugene lonesco by Derek Prouse) finally breached Broadway's avant-guarded walls for France's perkiest avant-gardist. The play, to be sure, has been trumpeted enough: its history included Paris and London productions with Jean-Louis Barrault and Laurence Olivier; its story dealt with people becoming rhinoceroses. If, for all that, it isn't a real Broadway event, it has its virtues as an oddity...
Time was when high-spirited citizens of Buffalo Gap. Texas (pop. 335) let off steam by bucketing down the main street on their perkiest cow ponies. Then came automobiles-but little else changed. Everyone still barreled through town at a breakneck clip. The sheriff was twelve miles away in Abilene, as remote as he was in the old freewheeling frontier days of wagon trains and trail herds...