Word: woodeness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. Peggy Wood, 86, versatile singing actress who starred in half a century of Broadway plays but was best remembered as the warmhearted Norwegian matriarch in television's I Remember Mama series (1949-1957); of a stroke; in Stamford, Conn. Beginning as a chorus girl in Victor Herbert's Naughty Marietta in 1910, she later moved on to the dramatic stage in both New York and London. Among her notable roles: Portia in The Merchant of Venice, George Bernard Shaw's Candida and Ruth, the jealous wife, in Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit...
Across the spectrum, Jews seem united in a feeling of disappointment with the man to whom they gave a majority of their votes in the 1976 presidential election. Says Murray Wood, of the Jewish Federation-Council of Greater Los Angeles: "There's no question that Ford would get more Jewish votes than Carter if the election were held today." Adds Stanley Sheinbaum, one of Los Angeles' chief Democratic Party fund raisers: "Carter is not to be relied upon as far as the security of Israel is concerned. I do not believe he has any solid commitment to Israel...
Davis loathed American regionalism -Thomas Hart Benton with his buckeye Michelangelo plowboys, Grant Wood's Midwestern Arcadias. "The only corn-fed art that was ever successful was the pre-Columbian," Davis snapped in 1934. His own vision of America as subject was much broader. It took in "wood-and ironwork of the past; Civil War and skyscraper architecture; the brilliant colors on gasoline stations, chain store fronts and taxicabs," as well as "Earl Hines' hot piano and Negro jazz music in general." His desire, he wrote, "is to construct formal souvenirs which are an agreeable emblem...
...displaying a Gallic idiosyncrasy or an American one? Both. Is that his business, not anyone else's? Yes. Is name changing an American quirk? Absolutely, says this SuperAmerican. Look at Natasha Gurdin (Natalie Wood); Marcus Rothkowitz (Mark Rothko); Michael Igor Peschkowsky (Mike Nichols). If Columbus had hung around, he might have called himself Collins. By the end of the volume does the reader feel a giddy temptation to throw away his own first name and mess around with the letters of the rest? As De Gramont-Morgan proves, that requires a lot of thought. - S. Wok (formerly John Skow...