Word: puns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...outside the Laurel home, from where Hershey was taken? Or does it refer to his friends Dewey Wood and de Forrest? Most of his acquaintances have the names of plants or trees: Maddy Beecher, Oliver Plane, Ivy Bowles, Lief Lund. John Plante, Cassia Meaning. Or is Cassia Meaning a pun on catch ya meaning? The word plays are both frivolous and serious, representing "the mind's fierce fuss, forever discontinuous...
...Neil Simon or Jean Kerr. But one does expect him to be funny and to be himself. Leonard Gershe is only sporadically funny and never uniquely himself. Eileen Heckart, playing the mother of a blind young man who seeks independence by moving into his own apartment, can groan and pun-like a baritone sax-and delivers her lines almost as if Gershe had delivered the goods...
...through a loud-talking stage. Any large group together in public tends to talk loudly. Eye aversion is not a black trait either. The Cultural Mafia certainly must not have talked to any young black militants because they will definitely give you an eye for an eye -no pun intended. Eye rolling is too ridiculous to comment...
Both the level of the pun and the mention of the Eliot Lounge proved disastrous. The victory on Saturday, and the prior evening's celebration, termed "foul and dubious" by a Crimson middle-distance man, had prepared the squad for something neither the Club, the awards, nor the Friends of Harvard Track could provide...
Thus the artist "Fiddleman" (Malamud's pun) is officially pronounced dead. But out of his almost interminable death agonies, Fidelman (a faithful human being) has been born...