Word: pops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tackles an always real situation without much sense of reality. It concerns an old man who has long lived, unwanted, with his son and daughter-in-law and who now, half blind, breaks dishes and sets things on fire. The daughter-in-law threatens to leave the house if Pop is not sent to a "home." Here the play starts to bounce away from its theme: the daughter-in-law begs the boarder to run off with her; the teen-age granddaughter theatrically intervenes. In time, the old man sets forth gallantly for the rest home...
Free Beer. The borough of Brooklyn (pop. 2,848,000) erupted with joy over their beloved Dodgers' first triumph. A blizzard of paper and ticker tape fluttered from office buildings. Barkeepers served beer on the house, and lunchroom operators handed out free hot dogs. Snake-dancing and parades went on all night. Life was so complete for one Brooklyn rooter that he tried to end it with a suicide leap off Brooklyn Bridge...
Brooklyn's joy was shared by the iron-mining hamlet of Witherbee. N.Y. (pop. 1,050), hometown of Johnny Podres, the son of a Lithuanian-American miner. Series Hero Podres, who earns about $1 1,000 for an entire season's work, stayed in Manhattan just long enough to pick up $3,000 for TV guest appearances, and a $9,768 check for his winner's share of the series gate. Then he drove home to Witherbee in a new white Corvette sports car that he won for being the series star. A testimonial dinner was planned...
...plot of the novel, then, merely concerns some bubbles which pop. Nor has the story itself any "cosmic" significance, unless as a running commentary upon everyday America. And even these comments figure in jokes along the way rather than in any destined conclusion to the book. The real heart of The Bubble Makers is not its subject matter but its style...
...choir was directed by slender, thirtyish Edith Möller, who used to be co-director of a district school for underprivileged and "difficult" children in the Saxon town of Obernkirchen (pop. 6,400). When the school building was commandeered for a hospital in 1946, she decided to organize a singing group ("Music has a beneficial influence on children"). She gathered children of local railroaders, lumber dealers, locksmiths, mechanics, polished up the kids' piping tones until they became as smooth as their scrubbed faces, and as crisp as the little girls' curtsies. The late Poet Dylan Thomas...