Word: plot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only last week Jordan's King Hussein had proclaimed the discovery of a murder plot against him. The King had ordered the arrest of 60 Jordanian army officers, including one of his most trusted lieutenants. Presumably, the plots in Amman and Baghdad to kill both young Kings had been timed to go off almost simultaneously. Hearing the news of the revolt in Baghdad, stout-hearted young King Hussein this week proclaimed himself new head of the Arab Union, and broadcast to his people: "We shall pilot the ship toward a safe harbor, relying on our loyal people and army...
...Plot for a Graveyard. Some smart Broadway money was betting that Music Man would fall flat on its corn husks when it opened at the Majestic Theater. By Broadway standards, it is simpleminded and unsophisticated. It is also warmhearted, brilliantly performed and a lot of fun. The Music Man is Professor Harold Hill, a glib-tongued, fast-footed, woman-chasing rascal of a traveling salesman from Gary, Ind., who bursts into staid River City, charms a frozen-faced populace into digging into their cookie jars and mattresses to buy instruments and uniforms for a boys' marching band that will...
Before opening night, this sort of plot was regarded by Broadway wiseacres as something that belongs in the theatrical graveyard. But when the opening-night curtain fell, most critics were ecstatic. "Marvelous," said the New York Times's Brooks Atkinson. "If Mark Twain could have collaborated with Vachel Lindsay, they might have devised a rhythmic lark like The Music Man, which is as American as apple pie and a Fourth of July oration." Cheered the Herald Tribune's Walter Kerr: "The brightest, breeziest, most winning new musical to come along since My Fair Lady enchanted...
...divorce." She accepts the explanation along with his advances, but a few months later she discovers that he is really not married at all. Naturally enough, the lady is vexed. "How dare he make love to me and not be a married man!" And she hatches an absurdly sinister plot, involving "the other man," to make the bluffer suffer. But the plot miscarries in a very funny scene, and before long, the relationship is satisfactorily altared...
...have in a sense been used up and thrown away. The women, as usual, are in control. All in all, the book is satisfactory seashore entertainment. Anyone reading it on certain Long Island beaches need only look up from the pages to find the characters-if not the plot-all around him in the sand...