Word: soapboxer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...share of failures. Paradoxically, the uneven quality may even enhance Kline's reputation. Few artists could hope to survive such a warts-and-all survey. Yet undeniably the powerful radicalism of the mustachioed Pennsylvanian comes across-though sometimes as crude as corn whisky, and sometimes as bombastic as soapbox oratory...
...truth because it can drive men mad. So the reader is advised: "Let us all lie together, or surely we shall all lie alone." Fortunately, Fuentes is a natural-born "liar." and frequently skillful and imaginative enough to rivet the attention. Even his windy sales pitches from the existential soapbox are not without charm and vitality. It is as if Fuentes were more interested in the pitch than the sale. In fact, two phrases in the book's closing lines might well have appeared on page 1. They are "Take it easy" and "Stay loose...
...Strike!" and Golden Boy suggests the apotheosis of sentimentalism--or else a bad musical with Sammy Davis Jr. No one thinks of Odets as a great dialogue writer, which he was, or as a creator of remarkably distinctive characters, which he was also. We think of him as a soapbox in possession of a typewriter...
...Like the soapbox, Odets has fallen into disuse. So, if nothing else, the Charles Playhouse is performing a small historical service in reviving the first, and what many consider the best, of Odets's plays, Awake and Sing...
...show hits 17 stations. William F. Buckley Jr., on 20 stations, commands one of the more intelligent talk shows. Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty is a regular chatterbox on local TV, joshing away with Pierre Salinger or George Jessel, and Comic Mort Sahl has found a Los Angeles TV soapbox from which to harangue an avid following with his prophecies of Armageddon...