Word: saloon
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...granite-faced seaman sits waiting in a saloon. The voice behind him is soft and beckoning. He rises and holds the pregnant girl in his arms. The beaming, reunited couple could be lovers -but they are father and daughter. By the time her common-law husband joins the pair, it is clear that riverrun becomes Electra...
With the air of Carry Nation axing a saloon, House Republican Leader Gerald Ford last week launched a crusade to expel Justice William O. Douglas from the Supreme Court. Most observers assume that Ford wants to impeach Douglas as a reprisal for Richard Nixon's two Senate defeats in the Haynsworth and Carswell cases. Legal scholars doubt that Douglas' unconventional views and behavior come remotely close to grounds for impeachment. But Douglas is vulnerable to criticism on many grounds...
Playwright Charles Gordone will be featured on another right to discuss his widely-acclaimed three-act play, No Place To Be Somebody -the drama about a young and ambitious black saloon-keeper in an urban ghetto. Gordone's play is a brilliant affirmation of his own black ethos, yet it has achieved universal magnitude in the power of its characterizations...
...past 200 years. but he isn't doing any preaching. He has this way of looking at things that lets you go on where he left off, if you want to- but if you'd rather spend the entire book in the Rapid Black Cougar Saloon (such a fine name) watching Mustache Sal do her thing with the cowhands, that's okay with...
Behind the Lines. Joe Kennedy had the fortune to be born in a Boston where, the Yankee hegemony notwithstanding, political and financial power was beginning to be possible for an Irishman. His grandfather had fled the potato famine in 1848; his father, Patrick J. Kennedy, became a saloon owner and Massachusetts state senator. Pat Kennedy had the money and savvy to send Joe to Boston Latin School and then across the river to Harvard, deep behind the Brahmin lines. Emerging from Harvard in 1912, Kennedy told friends that he would be a millionaire at 35-and he just made...