Word: smile
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cheerfully parodying an old Bell System slogan as he led 200,000 telephone workers to the picket lines two weeks ago, Communications Workers of America Boss Joseph A. Beirne allowed that "the voice with a smile will be gone for a while." And so it was-at least among the grim-faced installers, operators, linemen, repairmen and clerks out on the streets last week...
Thomson's four years at Yale were mostly spent at the Yale Daily News, which he edited as a senior. "The chairman controlled editorial policy," Thomson said with a smile, "so although most of our members were conservative Republicans, we came out eloquently for Adlai Stevenson...
Sullivan himself looked even nattier than he does each Sunday when, as St. Paul's head usher, he greets parishoners at the door. Silvery hair and glasses gleaming, he bounced from table to table greeting friends and allies. With a broad smile, he accepted flowers from a Democratic committee-woman, a scroll from the Michael A. Sullivan Memorial Associates (a continuing Sullivan campaign organization), a chair from the committee of friends giving the dinner, and a fire-helmet from the Cambridge Fire Department. "It's his smile; he'd win it on his smile alone," one woman said...
...name Hrundi V. Bakshi inscribed on Hollywood's blackest blacklist. It is inscribed instead on the list of guests to be invited to a party at the producer's house. And that is how Peter Sellers happens to show up in brownface with a mild Oriental smile and a wild Oriental eye to turn a black-tie dinner into a hectic crescendo of slapstick, sight gag, pratfall and pandemonium...
...Kenneth Koch's George Washington Crossing the Delaware, recites the story of this lackluster incident in history with a super-patriotic relish, thereby mocking the origin and purpose of this country. While the actors, under the direction of Gary Byrne, do not often look at each other and usually smile or pause to forewarn the audience of a punch line, quite a bit of Koch's zaniness gets through. At one point. Terrence McNally, as the title character, heroically informs his soldiers, "We have nothing to fear but death." Any play that makes George Washington look like...