Word: tufts
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...ambiguity of Tuft's position is that while in all of its advertising and publicity it represents itself as a professional company, it is not. It is staffed almost entirely by college students, many of whom are taking summer drama courses. Yet it tries to produce a professional slate on a professional rehearsal schedule. It is not, unfortunately, quite that good...
...Snobs & Tuft-Hunters. In America's future there was a Mark Twain, whose frontier lay almost a thousand miles to the west of Cooper's, and whose literary sights were set a great deal more truly than Natty Bumppo's. It was Mark Twain who pointed the double irony-that Cooper, who wrote badly of the society he knew, knew nothing of what he wrote best about-savages. When Cooper hit Paris in 1826, he was able to report complacently to his publisher: "'Mohicans is looking up famously in Europe." The resident intellectuals, including Jean Jacques...
...lacked either a British or American sense of humor. In the end, he came to feel guilty when he found that the creator of Leatherstocking had a reputation back home of "trying night and day to live with dukes and duchesses." He and his family were not really "tuft-hunters," he protested, adding that he had no desire to marry his four daughters to Europeans...