Word: alienation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...grey-gowned figure in charge looks like a visitor from another planet. Between skull cap and mask, his head sprouts a startling pair of binocular spectacles. His hands move with confident precision and his even voice snaps with authority, but his very words seem part of an alien language-a communication designed solely for his colleagues...
...some school teachers the HUT volunteers represent an alien force, a group of students who have come to take away their jobs and keep their salaries down...
While Constancy's mother (Miranda Samples) attempts to connect her love-sick daughter with Dr. Daly, one love approaches fulfillment: Alexis (H. Thomas Bell), son of Sir Marmaduke, will soon wed Alien (Carolyn W. Kimball). But Alexis, cursed with ideas, thinks indiscriminate and widespread marriage will bring all earthly joys and accordingly engages a respectable family sorcerer (Peter Skolnik) to enamour the villagers of each other. The results are lively Gilbert and Sullivan...
...operetta rested on Alien, Alexis, and the sorcerer (it doesn't, so don't worry), it would have only one really strong leg. Miss Kimball sports a magnificent red wing and a voice to match; her eyes and other accoutrements rove interestingly. She, like Constancy and Dr. Daly, is fun to watch and hear. Alexis, unfortunately, cannot sing, but he overcomes this handicap in the wisest way: by singing loudly and acting well...
...Vanzetti told on being arrested were brought out as evidence of "consciousness of guilt." The defense agreed that the men were conscious of guilt, but claimed they believed they were being arrested for their politics and not for murder. Their interrogation took place during the "Red Scare," when alien radicals were being deported and fear of "bomb-throwers" and foreigners was rampant in the East...