Word: successful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Behan's thunderous and immediate success was on the scale of another bedeviled elf, the late Welsh poet, Dylan Thomas. But unlike Thomas, who wanted both porter and her daughter, Playwright Behan has stuck to the porter; and while it goes to his head with staggering frequency, nothing else has. His complete curtain speech in London, after he had watched Quare Fellow's opening in the company of two playgoers from Scotland Yard, was a classic: "I've been under guard here. I need a drink badly. Please forgive me." Two years ago, invited to appear...
...spigot, Brendan turns it off during his writing bouts. Not that it is easy to stick to work, now that the vagabond liver has money and fame. Brendan has started a novel about Dublin, but, he says, "I can't get on with it with all this blanking success." Meanwhile, since his Borstal Boy was banned as "obscene" by the Irish government, he strides about bellowing (to the tune of MacNamara's Band...
...Their seriousness in terms of a threat to our American way of life is certainly obvious." More to the point: the board is working hard with scant funds to solve an awesome juvenile delinquency problem, does not like to be reminded that it can not yet claim any great success...
...time when embarrassment is general among Party litterateurs because of the incorrigible Pasternak, the new book seems like the perfect tonic for the authorities. Pravda, Kommunist and other Russian periodicals have given it long, laudatory reviews; but more important, perhaps, the novel's overwhelming success will undoubtedly be taken as the people's mandate to chill the intellectual climate several degrees below freezing. Pasternak's case has already prompted the Kremlin to tighten the reins, not only in Russia, but throughout the Communist world...
...same setup as the scientific courses enjoy would be a good answer." Last year, for the first time, an elementary language course was allowed four hours a week--German A. This new course was quite popular and the "Aural-Oral" (Cornell) method of teaching is proving to be a success. "There is no guarantee that we'll stop at 4 hours a week," a section man said, "but in the event that we don't, we'd pare down the homework...