Word: tavernes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Take, for example, former Boston Agent John W. Harris, who served for 16 years with the IRS before he became one of some 100 agents indicted for bribery over the past two years. Harris told the subcommittee that in 1963 his unit suspected a Milton, Mass., tavern owner named Bernard McGarry of tax evasion, and that for six weeks IRS men watched McGarry's house with "sniperscopes"-a World War II vintage infra-red telescope that allows an observer to see 175 yds. in the dark, and "snooperscopes," a smaller version with a range of 30 yds. Harris said...
Comrade Leonard Makepeace is a provincial bicycle mechanic with a passion for the Marxian notion that man (and society) is perfectible on earth. This passion he dissipates happily in tavern talk until he meets a delectable but distant schoolmistress from Lenin grad. Rejected in love, he goes after power and one day discovers in a volume of Indian theosophy the technique of "mental magnetism." He realizes he can make anybody do anything...
HENRY IV, PART I & HENRY IV, PART II (Caedmon). There are those who believe that Falstaff is the greatest comic character in English literature, and these recordings will not disappoint them. Anthony Quayle's voice combines the tavern-soaked grossness of "fat Jack" with the agile wit and arrogant flair of Sir John. Michael Redgrave as Hotspur seems at times to get only false teeth into the part...
...last and highest, praise must go to director John Lithgow for the gall to undertake such a production and the imagination to make it succeed. His numerous bits of comic stage business, his theatrical playfulness and inventiveness kepp the brief duets as exciting as the raucous tavern scenes and intricate dances. Under Lithgow's broad, farcical hand, The Beggar's Opera sparkles...
...Herreshoff Trophy of the North American Yacht Racing Union; General Lyman Lemnitzer, 65, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, awarded the Bernard Baruch Medal by the U.S. Veterans of Foreign Wars; Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, 66, given a plaque by the Camp Fire Club of America, at the Tavern-on-the-Green in Manhattan's Central Park...