Word: falling
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Late that fall (1953) he arranged an audition before a live audience at San Francisco's lowercase, lower-depths hungry i (for intellectual). It was Sue's suggestion: "If they don't understand you," she said, "they'll label it whimsy." Onstage, Sahl began talking about the McCarthy jacket, explained that it was like the Eisenhower jacket except that it had "an extra flap to go over the mouth," added that "Senator McCarthy does not question what you say so much as he questions your right to say it." No one even smiled. Then up from...
More bizarre than Berman and more emotionally engaging than Sahl are Mike Nichols and Elaine May, who brilliantly exaggerate sophistication until it bursts with humor. A dentist and his patient fall in love ("I knew it when I looked into your mouth and saw you were English clear through"). In a sequence called Bach to Bach they are two symphonic phonies comparing sensitivities in bed ("I can never believe that Bartok died on Central Park West"). Newest of the offbeat generation is Bob Newhart, whose button-down mind opens up some odd pockets of history-Khrushchev getting a head spray...
...schools, to integrate "with all deliberate speed." Two months ago Houston's school board blandly submitted a plan to integrate only three schools-and pledged that no child in the district need attend them. Last week Judge Connally cracked down, ordered integration of all kindergartens next fall, and of a grade a year thereafter. He called the board's plan "a palpable sham and subterfuge...
...Ohiri's faith is not shared by Kenya's flashy young politician Tom Mboya, who says that the U.S. is "not applying itself realistically" to the problem of educating Africans. Visiting the U.S. to raise plane fare for 250 Kenyans who have scholarships to American colleges next fall, Mboya called on Candidate John F. Kennedy at Hyannisport and said: "What we need is a crash program to train thousands to man our new government...
U.C.L.A.'s new Sproul Hall, scheduled to open this fall, was planned from the start as cohabitational. In separate wings for opposite sexes, Sproul's 400 men and 400 girls will share a beige brick nest atop a Westwood hill...