Word: tics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...company eagerly plunged into commercialism to raise the rest. Singers Jeanne Beauvais, Norman Myrvik, Francis Barnard and Musical Director Lucille Burnham gave all the concerts they could. Stage Manager Beth Leibowitz made and sold ceramics, while Company Manager Richard Flusser hopefully entered a TV quiz show named Tic Tac Dough (he won a watch, but no dough). By last month they were so nearly solvent that they embarked...
...rolled out Tic Tac Dough this summer (Mon.-Fri. 12 noon) with Veteran Cashier Jack Barry maneuvering players "horizontally, diagonally or vertically" in the old crisscross game of ticktacktoe. Prize per game: $100. But, adds the network, a winner "may increase his winnings indefinitely...
...Tic Tac Dough (Mon.-Fri. 12 p.m., NBC). A new audience-participation show...
...days and lands him at Duncanford, "the best-run nuthouse in England." There Dick runs the gantlet of tranquillizing drugs, insulin and electric shock treatments and doubletalk ("idealization of the phantasmal reorientation") from one of the "headshrinkers." After two years or so, Dick is released with a nervous tic behind his left ear, and the vaguely damning words "constitutional inferiority" stamped on his army discharge papers. His wife is loyal, but in the outside world his case record makes him as untouchable as an ex-jailbird. His old boss refuses to hire him back. Everywhere he meets "the look" which...
...Ulysses* has long been a touchstone-and a sacred object. Anyone admitting dislike or incomprehension of it is almost automatically drummed out of any self-respecting literary regiment. Now, writing in the New Statesman and Nation, one of the best critics on either side of the Atlan tic has reassessed Ulysses. Says Britain's V. S. Pritchett...