Word: sweets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Robert Benchley. As writers, they share the same gently shrugging quality that utterly preludes malice, the same preoccupation with the bizarre edges of the commonplace, the same disarming penchant for self-deprecation, as when the ample Mrs. Kerr compares herself to "a large bran muffin" or Benchley calls himself "Sweet Old Bob, or sometimes just the initials...
...Republicans and the hard-shell Democrats figured it would be easier to rally future opposition to such equally contentious Kennedy proposals as the education bill and medical aid to the aged. John Kennedy's honeymoon with the 87th Congress had been short and something less than sweet...
...very center around which the whole universe revolves." Topsy-turvily, compassion is extended to the evildoer rather than to his victims. Thus the recent U.S. scene has offered the spectacle of "The Martyr as Manly Rapist" (Caryl Chessman), "The Martyr as High-Minded Gigolo" (Chance Wayne in Sweet Bird of Youth), and "The Martyr as Put-Upon Professor" (Charles Van Doren, self-proclaimed victim of the TV quiz riggings). The ultimate in 20th century "compassion" is to declare God irresponsible. In a Jules Feiffer cartoon a kindly chap standing on a stool concludes his monologue with God thus: "Listen...
Miss Kittel is only one of the specialists which the Pudding brought to Cambridge "to amuse the local drama people." Theoni V. Aldredge, costume designer for the show, has worked extensively on Broadway, most recently for "Sweet Bird of Youth" and the current "Mary, Mary...
...town's best families and the boy friend of one of the sheriff's two daughters. Why couldn't the sheriff be found the day of the murder, or for a day or so after that? And how could Daughter Jill, so sweet and pure, shed her grief so soon and take up with her nymphomaniac sister's young lover? Any reader who thinks at this point that he is settling down to a Spoon River mystery or even a variant on An American Tragedy does not know his Grubb. As the story of the sheriff...