Word: wife
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PARTY and THE BASEMENT. Harold Pinter provokes a devilishly clever sort of participatory theater in which the playgoer is lured into playing detective without any clues. In Tea Party, a middle-aged manufacturer of bidets is driven into a catatonic state by the interactions of his secretary, his wife and her brother. The Basement has two old friends vying for the affections of a girl with whom they share a basement flat...
MILLAIS AND THE RUSKINS, by Mary Lutyens. Private Lives, Victorian style, raised to the level of art by the author's skill and the writing ability of Critic John Ruskin and his wife...
...campaigning for Hubert Humphrey. He starred at a couple of fundraisers to offset the $3.5 million deficit left from Robert's presidential primary campaign. Gradually his humor and sprightliness returned. But in front of the fireplace in his new home in Virginia, into which he moved with his wife Joan and their three children last March, he appeared distant and dreamy when the subject of his future came up. Frequently, the talk centered on the Senate and his role in it. He was generally pleased with his performance so far, he told one friend. But: "I want to establish...
...Colleges are supposed to educate, not serve as custodian institutions for students. If you and your wife failed to do your job as parents, don't expect us to salvage him," he said...
...DEBUT with the Boston Symphony in 1948 was less the product of her own initiative. She was playing at the time with Ruth Passelt, violinist and wife of the associate conductor. The orchestra was in Cleveland that winter when Lukas Foss, the scheduled pianist, was suddenly called away. Miss Vosgerchian was given twelve hours to begin rehearsals. "No woman yet had played in the Symphony," Miss Vosgerchian recalls, "so Koussevitsky insisted I first play in front of Lukas...