Word: sisson
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Consider the plot of Tea Party, a one-acter that, along with The Basement, is being offered off-Broadway. The central figure is Sisson (David Ford), a middleaged, successful British manufacturer of bidets. A self-made man, he prizes decisiveness, precision, strength of character. A widower, he marries a genteel second wife (June Emery) and hires a miniskirted, sexually provocative secretary (Valerie French) in the same week. He invites his wife's brother (John Tillinger) into the firm. His wife becomes her brother's secretary, and the pair indulge in faintly incestuous reminiscences of days on a gracious...
Meanwhile, Sisson's secretary, who quit her previous boss for continually "touching" her, incites Sisson into making groping passes. As the sexual tension increases, Sisson suffers double vision and temporary blind spells and takes to blindfolding himself with his secretary's scarf. At an office tea party, Sisson's wife and secretary delightedly lie down on Sisson's desk while the brother touches them with gentle intimacy. The unseeing Sisson stiffens catatonically in his chair and may just possibly be in his death throes...
...National Science Foundation, a program which supplies almost $2 million to GSAS science students, has slightly increased its support of Harvard students. There are 100 more NSF fellows at Harvard than anywhere else, and there is no reason to expect any decrease in the near future, Thomas K. Sisson, assistant dean of GSAS, said recently...
Many University administrators have expected an informal policy of extending postponements, Thomas K. Sisson, assistant dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, said last night. The recent memorandum, however, was the first official Selective Service statement on postponements, Sisson said...
...Council's survey of 122 schools is misleading in Harvard's case, Sisson explained, because the Council used the total number of graduating seniors in each college who plan to attend graduate school as the basis for the estimate of that college's first-year graduate enrollment...