Word: stumping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...enjoyed his life, his fame, his lecture audiences, his baroque drinking buddies. Jimmy Breslin tells of visiting him after the diabetic Kelly had had a leg amputated. Kelly displayed the stump as an excuse for missing an evening in the saloons. "I'll just have to wait," he said, "until it grows back." The father of six children by two marriages, Kelly retained a childlike enthusiasm for the world and its foibles until his death last week of diabetic complications at age 60. "There is talk," he once wrote, "that growing up is tough. If so, then perhaps...
...above all--at least compared to its competition--Tomorrow is interesting. Standing rigid in his spartan set, Snyder delivers serious monologues that, despite clumsy rhetoric, usually make points more memorable than the tunes from "Stump the Band." Probably, some guests will stomp off his show, but undoubtedly, many sets will remain on after Tonight...
...head against a stone wall trying to destroy it, the argument continues. And what better way to insure that the army refrain from rightist adventures than to put Harvard men in its leadership? Surely, compassionate and humane Ivy Leaguers in uniform will protect us against all those proto-fascist stump-jumping hillbillies from the South and midwestern cow colleges...
With its movable, spring-loaded hooks, the prosthesis fitted onto the stump of Dan Aycock's left arm two years ago was a substantial improvement over the ugly iron claw of earlier days. But the artificial arm still had a serious deficiency. Because Aycock, 38, who lost his arm in a textile-mill accident, was unable to tell how much pressure he was exerting on anything he was trying to pick up or use, he risked breaking the gauges and other delicate items that he handled on the job in a Louisburg, N.C., automobile agency. Now Aycock...
Some spectators object to the play's negativism and strong language. One woman at a recent performance in Cape Girardeau, Mo. (pop. 32,700), was offended by the long underwear. "At least," she bristled, "the girl could have worn a frilly dress." The company has had to modify Stump Removal by chastening its sex scenes and toning down a few lines-"the cheapest whorehouse in town" has become "the cheapest dance hall in town." But Dawkins believes most audiences sympathize with the play's "rejection and overthrow of oppressive authority...