Word: younger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Having proved twice that his crew is the best in the world, Coach Adam, 53, is thinking of retiring. "I'm getting older," he says, "and an older coach doesn't have the same contact and relationship with his boys as a younger coach. There isn't the same enthusiasm...
...aspiring wife) step on stage in their underwear and start singing a cigarette add ("The Breeze at night is just as good as the Breeze in the morning") one certainly gets a fine sense of trivia. Shortly we discover (gasp of Recognition) that the play is really about the younger generation and growing up and accepting responsibility. Tom and Teena, we find, live unmarriedly in midtown Manhattan in a messy apartment displaying anti-bourgeois scorn for neatly preserved possessions (their sofa is an automobile seat) and a flair for camp (wall cartoons of a trotting Flash Gordon and of Batman...
...have just enough of him and Miss Stickney to make painfully clear the contrast between their fine acting and subtle sense of timing and the inarticulate and clumsy stumbling of the younger members of the cast, and that contrast says more to me of the difference between the generations than anything Bill Inge wrote into this botched and opportunistic show-piece. Of course, we all know how decadent and commercial Broadway and its devotees are but it's still a bit depressing to see something like Family Things - Etc. a few hundred miles from home. Hopefully its schedule will take...
...daughter Abigail, in the archives of the Vermont Historical Society, the new diary contains entries from 1753 to 1758, partly overlapping the previous diary and pushing the saga of John's life back two years to his career as a Harvard sophomore. The discovery shows a younger John Adams, says L.H. Butterfield, editor in chief of the Adams Papers, and "sheds a good deal of light on the character and training of the farmer's son who became the second President of the United States...
Died. John V. Mara, 57, president of the National Football League's New York Giants founded in 1925 by his father Timothy, who inherited the team in 1930 and with his younger brother Wellington led it through the lean years of World War II and a costly 1946-49 fight against the upstart All-America Conference to the top of the heap with an unequaled 14 divisional and three world championships and an estimated value of $10 million; of cancer; in Manhattan...