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...SHOWOFF. The marrying process is always a mystery, but Playwright George Kelly's tightly corseted family cannot begin to understand how the youngest daughter could possibly pick a man whose every guffaw grates on the nerves and whose every word offends the sensibilities. Helen Hayes leads the APA in a gentle revival of the 1924 comedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Feb. 9, 1968 | 2/9/1968 | See Source »

...SHOWOFF. A North Philadelphia family is forced to change gears when a monkey wrench, in the form of a loudmouth son-in-law (Clayton Corzatte), is thrown into the domestic proceedings. Helen Hayes leads the APA repertory company in a skillful revival of George Kelly's 43-year-old comedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jan. 12, 1968 | 1/12/1968 | See Source »

...student with a self-effacing manner: "Forget about modesty; be a showoff. There has never been written a modest symphony, a humble rhapsody. You must be able to say with great feeling, 'I hate you' or 'I love you.' Once you are able to say that, you will find you can play the cello...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cellists: Master Class | 5/13/1966 | See Source »

Wrong Dog. Slogging through this chaos is exhausting, uphill work, made none the easier by a fallible and somewhat pretentious guide. Carson's book is strewn with such showoff, jawbreaker words as armigerous, pogonologist, acescent, enchiridion, ochlocracy.* He lapses frequently into ungrammatical constructions and even into error. In his hands, the Court of St. James's, to which all ambassadors to Britain pay their respects, loses its possessive case. L'Osservatore della Domenica, a Vatican weekly, is falsely identified as the more familiar Vatican daily, L'Osservatore Romano. Anyone who dials Socrates Lovinger's number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dry Paths in a Swamp | 4/8/1966 | See Source »

...Southern California and mouse fink or straight arrow (a combination pill and moral paragon) in the Harvard Yard. But though a tool in Florida is a dullard, a tool in the academic machinery of M.I.T. is merely a diligent studier. A tooler at the University of Texas is a showoff, the equivalent of a cake-eater at Detroit's Wayne State, and a vest at George Washington University...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Students: The Slang Bag | 1/1/1965 | See Source »

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