Word: absolom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...governorship, in 1964 supported Lyndon Johnson, while the Byrds followed a policy of "golden silence." Harry Jr.'s situation is further complicated by the fact that it is a regular election year for Virginia's other Senate seat, held for two decades by Byrd Man A. (for Absolom) Willis Robertson, 78, who is also being challenged by a moderate, State Senator William B. Spong Jr., 45. Chances are that the cumulative psychological effect of two attractive challengers will work against both organization candidates...
...actors--Beverly Doyle (Isabel), Jim Shapiro (Alex) and Thomas King (Absolom)--and their "working partners"--Jesse Kornbluth, John Mercer, and Judy Zellweger--also performed some improvisations by way of demonstrating their rehearsal technique...
...suppose Schwartz means seriously the sketch that followed. It concerned an abortive reading of Hamlet, directed by Isabel's alcholic lover, Alex, who is the brother of Isabel's former lover--who died of an overdose of heroin. Alex reads Claudius, Isabel Gertrude. Hamlet is appropriately performed by Absolom, an idiot-child orphan the other two have inexplicably accumulated some five minutes before the scene opens...