Word: angers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WHITE AMERICA has as its theme the oppression of the Negro, and the reactions to this pressure-in humor, in cynicism, in anger and in sorrow-are as numerous as the dramatic sketches that recount them...
Half the credit for the power of "Look Back in Anger" belongs to Andreas Teuber; the rest of the credit must be shared among the other members of the Loeb production and the playwright. For Teuber is a brilliant actor, and as Jimmy Porter, the outrageous English rebel, he gives a memorable performance. He swings, dances, and shouts himself across the stage, waging some indefinite angry crusade, more bully than knight, but believable as both. The play itself is almost a twentieth-century Tom Jones, full of dark energy and strong life. This energy is what Teuber captures...
...Part of Ehrhardt's work was done for him by the script--he need only speak his lines and let the other characters rage against him to be effectively lovable. Happily, Ehrhardt does more. He plays Jimmy's punching bag with a surprising kindness, and his few moments of anger are that much more convincing...
While Belli bawled out his anger, District Attorney Henry Wade, 50, a former FBI agent, quietly told the jury: "Thank you for a fair and impartial verdict." Later, on the courthouse steps, he commented to reporters in a dignified drawl that possibly Melvin Belli had slipped into a "fugue state" of mind himself...
Rebel hopes for a widespread general revolt rest on the peasant masses and the thousands of unemployed workers in the cities. So far, peasant anger has been directed more at the "little village kings" and the overprivileged army than at Ben Bella himself. In the oasis village of Tolga last month, a furious crowd pummeled the mayor and the local F.L.N. political bosses, grabbed three buses and drove to Biskra to protest that the bosses had pocketed government relief funds. From Ouled Djellal and Ourellal come reports that hungry peasants have set fire to party headquarters and even liquidated some...