Word: rich
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...personal letter and also to cram a maximum of information, anecdotes, and observations into a five-minute broadcast. One piece begins with a breezy description of the development of Palm Beach Florida--a quiet retreat which, Cooke sadly notes, was created by and for "the fastidiousness of the very rich" not by the act of the legislature, as would befit the U.S.'s democratic pretensions. This is only a prelude to the core of the talk, where Cooke sketches, in only two pages, the strange combination of pomp and efficiency surrounding any United States President, but particularly John F. Kennedy...
...live and draw a flow of gold. From a dead father's reservoir of rich es. I retreat further and further back. Behind my own lonely elegance. Where no one will ever again get to know me. And speak less and less." These are the thoughts of Balthazar B, whose picaresque life story seems to prove F. Scott Fitzgerald's statement that "the very rich are different from you and me." Actually, rich or poor, J. P. Don-leavy's characters always appear to lead lives destroyed in some way by money...
Priapic Pranks. However, a rich lad's life is governed not only at home but also in a high-class English boarding school where golfing and keeping one's thoughts and actions dirt-free are more important than education. As the housemaster says, "When smuttiness comes smite it. And here we smite smut. Let there be no question about that. Our little golfers knock it for a loop...
...thing, trials are mainly contests between lawyers, not impartial efforts to diagnose misfits. The very fact that most criminals are not caught makes the caught ones feel that getting captured was their only mistake. Worse, they learn that money talks: most defendants cannot afford the skilled lawyers who spring rich clients. So the defendants plead guilty without trial and are sentenced by judges who cannot tell how many years will suffice for "rehabilitation." The criminals are caged in prisons without job training, suffer sexual deprivation, and eventually are dumped back into a society that hates "convicts...
...Equally significant is Mr. Bloch's decision to emphasize the inherent humor of line and situation, and to use a liberal hand in devising comic business. Although occasionally subtle antics which animate the human background throughout the evening distract from more important actions, the general effect is one of rich detail, and this must be judged a special pleasure while Harvard theater is so often plagued by underrealized staging. Much of the politically cheering impact of this production derives directly from its humor, as further embodied in Mr. Sabel's fine-sounding translation, which provides a good deal of sharp...