Word: tramp
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Taste of Honey. An episodic but unblinkingly truthful first play about a tramp of a mother and her illegitimate daughter, by a talented young Englishwoman who has the knack of using light to make soot more visible...
...becomes more oppressive, his face and form become obsessive-at a tea-shop window, in a doorway, clomping along with his crippled leg like an ogre in a bad dream. Jacques' deformity, of course, is in the eye of the beholder; as Author Kaye sees it, the tramp is whole and the world is emotionally crippled...
...Last week, committed to trimming its army down to a thin 165,000 professional soldiers, Britain became the first NATO nation to abandon conscription since the establishment of the alliance.* To reassure its friends, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's government cheerily explained that it was merely replacing the tramp, tramp, tramp of conventional forces (which NATO sorely lacks) with the more economical nuclear bang (which NATO Commander Lauris Norstad already has at his disposal...
...money, the two top things, as F. Scott Fitzgerald put it. Lacking popularity, the non-hero decides to be different (Nathan wants to be an artist), but he invariably deserts his goal and runs rabbit-scared for life's lettuce (Nathan becomes a cartoonist and creates a Chaplinesque tramp called "Rollo the Magnificent...
...sense of blockaded lives. It is a dissatisfaction that very often leaps to life through words that have edge and ring true, among people who are disturbed but vital, in scenes where lives come together, or clash, or come apart. An illegitimate young girl lives with her tramp of a mother, who soon enough runs off with a man. The girl herself has a brief affair with a Negro sailor on leave, becomes pregnant, is cared for by a young homosexual who moves in with her, and at the end is left alone to have her baby...