Word: algonquins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Such low-altitude flights of humor and fancy would not qualify Travolta to bus dishes at the Algonquin Round Table. That may be the way he wants it. Part of Travolta's success has been sticking close to what he knows and where he comes from...
Many Indians found St. Clair's attitude toward them and their culture condescending and demeaning. He asked witnesses questions about the number of occasions on which they wore Indian dress, the number of words of Algonquin they knew, the number of times they held certain meetings. He tried to make these factual points the standards by which to judge a group of people with a complex religion and culture...
...place of the famed Round Table where Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley and other wits from The New Yorker used to dine and quip during the '20s. But that seemed to suit the crowd just fine at last week's 75th birthday party for the Algonquin Hotel. The clubby bastion of New York literati was the site of a noisy celebration for 200 guests including Humorist S.J. Perelman, Actors Kevin McCarthy and Maureen Stapleton and Cartoonist Charles Addams. "You better feel witty before you enter the place; if not, just listen," cautioned Author Norman Mailer, a self-described "Algonquin...
Hotels were jammed with tourists, conventioneers and suburbanites who could not make it home because the electric-powered commuter trains were out. At the Algonquin, guests were unable to get into their rooms for an hour because the doors lock electronically. Many spent the night partying at the round tables in the dining room that was made famous by Robert Benchley and Dorothy Parker. At the New York Hilton, switchboard operators phoned each room to tell guests that two can dles were in every bureau?fixtures since the 1965 blackout. The hotel offered free coffee and food through the night...
...Algonquin Round Table, a reading of works from Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker (who is famous for quips like 'If all the girls at the Yale prom were laid end-to-end, I for one wouldn't be a bit surprised.') and other members of this 1920s circle of literati opens Friday at the Tickets...