Word: ancestors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ancestor of all man-v.-devil stories, the Faust legend has spawned some curious offspring over the centuries. The latest, Stanley Donen's Bedazzled, could in all likelihood qualify as the worst. A meek little short-order cook (Dudley Moore) hankers inarticulately after the waitress (Eleanor Bron) in a London greasy spoon. The Devil (Peter Cook) follows him home and makes a proposition: seven wishes granted, a soul in return...
...audience at Thursday night's opening seemed a little uncomfortable in Odets's presence, but quickly came to accept him, probably as a spiritual ancestor to such modern plays as Dear Me, the Sky is Falling and I Can Get it for You Wholesale. Lines like "I got a yen for her, and I don't mean a Chinese coin" were laughed at agreeably, and the play's genuinely tense moments drew genuinely tense reactions. All in all, it was hard to believe Awake and Sing could have meant something more, or even something different, to its '30's audiences...
...observation about your article on Gibraltar [Sept. 22]: My family "discovered" the Costa del Sol, and an ancestor was admiral-governor of Gibraltar. I have very good friends of every kind there and would like to make a true and neutral comment: even if 99.2% voted against annexation to Spain, 99.9% would honestly wish an arrangement with Spain. But, as always, politics creates such complex problems that our short lives are dominated by a couple of people who, for the sake of their local pride, make thousands suffer-in this case...
...JOURNAL (shown on Mondays). "A Few Castles in Spain" focuses on the current Duchess of Alba, her husband, her children and her castles. Along the way, she also mounts a defense of her notorious ancestor, the "Naked Maya" of Goya...
...Ishmael is traditionally considered the ancestor of the Arabs, Isaac of the Jews...