Word: terrorism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JACK RUBY, 53, the strip-joint owner who killed Oswald in the Dallas police station, often kneels in beady-eyed terror on the floor of his jail cell, and babbles that he can hear the screams of U.S. Jews who are being killed or castrated in the streets because of his crime. Such are his demented dreams that previously friendly guards have all but stopped playing dominoes with him, and Ruby spends hours hunched over on his bunk playing solitaire. Ruby has tried three times to kill himself-by battering his head against a wall, ripping up his trousers...
Anouilh puts his characters into wigs, and they traverse the centuries back to the French Terror of 1793. The play begins ten years after the end of World War II. Maxime (Charles D. Gray), a rich aristocratic rightist, decides to hold a wig party in a Gothic catacomb of a cellar. All his guests are to come as leading figures of the Revolution. Maxime himself plays Saint-Just. Other friends play Danton, Marie Antoinette, Louis XVI ("virtually a nonspeaking role") and the Comte de Mirabeau. The butt of the party is to be Bitos (Donald Pleasence), the local deputy prosecutor...
Through dinner and showtime, President Johnson was in one of his most ebullient moods. He cringed in mock terror as Spanish Dancer Mary Moore cracked a bull whip over his head. When Star Attraction Eddie Fisher got fouled up in his microphone while crooning his way among the tables, it was Lyndon who rushed to the rescue and untangled him. Then, just in case someone might think that Rancher Johnson had gone too citified in his ways, the show wound up with a demonstration of sheepherding by a band of hill-country collies...
With the ball on the Brown 35, senior quarterback Jim Dunda dropped back to pass. Harvard's Dave Davis, a defensive terror all day, rambled into Dunda and detatched him from the ball. In the scramble, someone kicked the fumble back towards Brown's goal line; the Bruins' Paul Coughlin fell...
When he was asked what he did during the Terror of the French Revolution, the aristocrat Emmanuel Sieyes replied, "I survived." If Soviet NoveMst llya Ehrenburg were asked about his own activities during the 20-year Stalinist terror, he might well give the same answer. Considering that just about every eminent Russian writer and artist was exiled, executed or hounded to suicide by the paranoid dictator, Ehren-burg's survival is one of the most remarkable literary achievements of modern times...