Word: younger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...race, already has the support of the state's powerful labor leaders and the Democratic machine. Yet no one is discounting the popular, dynamic Jerry Cavanagh-least of all Cavanagh, who has taken his own polls, believes that Williams' organization support may not help him win younger voters...
...should be played with a biting, deadpan humor. But his carriage was properly deadpan--a slump-shouldered, flat-footed walk. And most essential, he captured Mick's love for his brother, reflected in the abrupt concerned, slowing down of his speech whenever the bewildered Davies took one of the younger brother's fanciful harangues as an attack on Aster...
...family's elder son, Danny, and he is bringing her home. She enters a house full of forgotten ambitions and of subsurface unhappiness. Danny's father, Sam, is bored by his wife; the couple barely tolerates self-centered grandmother Eleanor; and all three have lost contact with swingin' teen younger brother George. The house is heavy with inertia; the mother wanted to be an artist, the grandmother a pianist. Sam was once a critic of note, but, like the others, has now given up on himself...
Beautiful strangers are expected to take control of situations like this. Sophia's presence disconcerts the mother, excites Sam and the grandmother to curiosity, and enraptures George. He senses a kindred spirit. When he hears that her younger brother is organizing theatres in Mississippi, he runs away from home and heads down South to prove himself...
...late Irish playwright Brendan Behan (The Hostage) and his younger, less successful playwright brother Dominic (Posterity Be Damned) were once described as the most alarming combination since assault and battery. In this graceless little memoir Dominic sets out to recount some of the escapades that gave them their reputation. Although he sometimes strikes a rollicking note by writing in an Irish dialect as heavy as Kilkenny dew, all Dominic proves is that 1) Brendan, who died in 1964, was especially unattractive and unmanageable when in his cups; and 2) drunks seldom are very funny except to those who are sharing...