Word: sons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even in barracks on the first day of basic training. Immediate buddyhood is established among Sal Mineo, a jivey cat from Manhattan's Lower East Side; Barry Coe, an Ivy sort from Glen Cove, L.I.; and Gary Crosby, who is cast as a rich Oregon rancher's son but manages to mug, wheeze and groan like a Bing from another planet...
Quincy's "heart's desire," his son recorded, "was to make the College a nursery of high-minded, high-principled, well-taught, well-conducted, well-bred gentlemen, fit to take their share, gracefully and honorably, in public and private life." In his attempt to reach this goal, Harvard's fifteenth President failed miserably. His policies incurred the wrath of the undergraduates and culminated in the great riot of 1834 and the subsequent dismissal of the entire sophomore class...
...Federalist Party first took note of Quincy after his flaming July 4th oration in 1798, which lambasted the French Directory and its attitude toward the fledgling United States. Edmund Quincy, Josiah's son and very partial biographer, enthused over the speech: "The effect which his oration produced upon the audience in the Old South Church was long remembered by those who heard it, for the fiery enthusiasm it aroused, and the passionate tears it drew forth." Quincy stood for Congress in the election of 1800, and, like the rest of the Federalists, went down to defeat. Democratic newspapers pointed...
...next ten years, Quincy became a gentleman-farmer, managing his own farm to the delight of local entrepreneurs. "He was an enthusiast in whatever he undertook," his son wrote, "and he entered into farming with all the zeal of his ardent temperament. His agricultural experience, like that of most gentleman-farmers, was rather profitable to others than to himself...
...four characters in The Glass Menagerie, the other of Tennessee Williams' two great plays, captured only some of the work's beautiful subtlety and fragility. Once again, the best job was turned in by Frank Langella as the son Tom. The Playhouse then resurrected the famous 1844 play The Drunkard; or, The Fallen Saved, "a moral domestic drama by W. H. Smith and a Gentleman." Marilyn Miller staged the work in period costume and old-school ham acting style; and the result was unflaggingly hilarious. Booing, hissing, and the throwing of peanuts were actively encouraged. A pianist furnished background accompaniment...