Word: woven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Chita Rivera plays another 20/20 visionary in Bajour, which has been woven from Joseph Mitchell's New Yorker look at the city's swindling gypsies. The season's only imported musical will be Oh What a Lovely War, a savage but moving World War I satire directed by London's Joan Littlewood...
...hottest of all, far more popular than ever before. In any of a hundred shapes, whether exquisite and chic or plain and substantial, wrought with precision by careful hand or knocked out en masse by machine, littered with "jewels" at a cost in the neighborhood of $150 or woven of raffia for $2.99, sandals are increasingly the newest, the nicest and the niftiest way to step out in style. The squares? Swinging. The beats? Beaten...
...Department of Commerce. The council now proposes to finish the northern triangle south of G Street, presently a junky commercial slum. The most striking feature would be a daring mezzanine that carries pedestrians over traffic. Lifting strollers over cars, it would bring people into shops, theaters, hotels and restaurants woven around new federal buildings. New commerce could draw Washingtonians, who are building away from the Capitol, back toward the center of the city...
...despair seems endless. But through his dream Tom at last realizes that his yearning for communication is his strength, not his death. Woven in with family scenes is the Crucifixion theme; Tom must be crucified and laid bare before he can be ressurected. And at one point his old great-aunt, who is deaf to the others, reaches out and begs Tom to "touch me, reach me...If not your hand, Tom, then whose?" There will always be someone waiting to be reached...
...choose to be eulogized. But let us just recall a thought from Pericles' Funeral Oration, which he often quoted: "The whole earth is the sepulchre of famous men; and their story is not graven only on stone over the native earth, but lives on far away, without visible symbol, woven into the stuff of other men's lives...