Word: caste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Such being the case, who among us "shall cast the first stone?" E. CHAT. SHANKS
While it gets off to a slow start, "You Touched me" succeeds very well as comedy, mostly because of Edmund Gwenn, but where "The Glass Menagerie" had a well-knit cast, Gwenn pulls the cast of "You Touched Me" a little off-balance. And unlike "The Glass Menagerie," the more topical new prodigy of Tennessee Williams types its characters...
...these signs shall follow them that believe; in my name they shall cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; they shall . . . take up serpents and if they drink any deadly thing it shall not hurt them. . . . Mark...
...Holy Emperors. Until 1868, the Emperor meant little or nothing to the Japanese. Under the 675-year dictatorship of the shoguns (Japan's military overlords), emperors were empty figureheads often cast aside, banished or assassinated at the shoguns' whim. "From the remote island to which he had been relegated, one managed to escape, hidden under a load of fish. Others had to sell autographs for a livelihood. The Emperor Tsuchi II lay unburied for six weeks until his son borrowed the money from Buddhist priests to pay for the funeral expenses...
...Wilder Hobson, onetime chairman of the Yale Literary Magazine and an authority on jazz (American Jazz Music), is mainly interested in prodding his people into disjointed remarks on music, clothes, Marx, alcohol, horses and the female figure. His deliberately meandering story is often witty, and stylishly tailored to a cast of characters who are unable to grasp anything more complicated than a highball...