Word: acter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most of these faults are picayune and do not detract significantly from this excellent production. Unfortunately, Arrabel's one-acter fares much worse It is a light anti-war fantasy, which does have its high points...
...white girl who is a twitchy, neurotic bundle of well-informed clichés and sterile sexual aggressions, lures, taunts, degrades and destroys a Negro in a Brooks Brothers shirt, but not before he tells her, with profane and explicit brutality, how much Negroes hate whites. Though his one-acter repeats the pattern of Albee's The Zoo Story, Jones captures the contemporary mood of violence with raw and nerve-tingling fury...
...white girl who is a twitchy, neurotic bundle of well-informed cliches and sterile sexual aggressions, lures, taunts, degrades and destroys a Negro in a Brooks Brothers shirt, but not before he tells her, with profane and explicit brutality, how much Negroes hate whites. Though his one-acter repeats the pattern of Albee's The Zoo Story, Jones captures the contemporary mood of violence with raw and nerve-tingling fury...
...upon the "harmonious presence" of all the values, a lower one-such as man's duty to help propagate the race-could be excluded temporarily for the sake of a higher one. This theologian believes that the contraceptive pills, like rhythm, do not interfere with the sacred char acter of the marital act, although mechanical birth-control devices...
...quit while it was ahead, it wouldn't have been an especially good play, but it certainly wouldn't have been an especially bad one. Which, unfortunately, it is. Ron Levin's forty-minute one-acter gives signs, at first, of turning into a quietly amusing comedy. But toward the end, which is close enough to the beginning to make abrupt changes disconcerting, the play becomes heavily philosophical, expiring with a great cry of hoarse, straight-from-the-soul spiritual agony...