Word: boola
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...green as any freshman. It did not appear on the New Haven scene until the 200th year of a university already laden with antiquities. It is much younger, for example, than old Connecticut Hall (completed 1752), the tavern known as Mory's (b. 1861), or even Boola Boola (1897).* But last week, as it observed its 50th year with an anniversary issue, the Yale Review could take pride in having become, in a mere half a century, one of Yale's-and journalism's-more imposing institutions...
Into this sham-fest the playwright throws a rich young Yaleman, full of boola, moola and ideals, trying to pursue an honest artistic career. Along the way, he is buffeted by a whipcracking female magazine publisher (Lahr), a Hollywood producer named Harry Hubris (Lahr), and his own father, Milo Leotard Allardyce DuPlessis Weatherwax (also Lahr), a wild Park Avenue lecher. When his son admits a literary interest in the exotic sins suggested by Lolita and the works of Oscar Wilde, Weatherwax bellows encouragingly: "That's the stuff to cut your eyeteeth on. You have to learn to crawl before...