Word: thrive
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this. Despite its election-year coloring, The Best Man is really a hardy perennial in the way it sets ethics against opportunism, statesmanship against careerism, and light against darkness. In the course of the evening, any number of real-life names and topical references crop up. Dinner parties will thrive on arguing who's who, or who's half-who, among the play's characters. But Playwright Vidal knows that to keep things spinning, storytelling means more than anecdote-mongering, and a protagonist more than a prototype. The Best Man provides little about issues or rival parties...
...week, as they completed another season of frigid frustration on the banks of the Loisach and Wertach, the fishermen could take cold comfort from the hope that their misery might some day have company. European experts are certain that the huchen, a landlocked member of the salmon family, would thrive in the unpolluted streams of the western U.S., if the U.S. ever decides to expose its fishermen to a lifetime of happy misery...