Word: clambering
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...story within an account of how three successive White House administrations, from Kennedy through Nixon, were consumed by a debate over federal antipoverty efforts -- a Washington policy war that combined the worst features of academic detachment and fang-baring political ambition. His heroes are the migrants who managed to clamber into the middle class, mostly on the narrow foothold of modest government jobs. His villains -- and there are more of those -- are the politicians and policymakers of both left and right who botched the War on Poverty...
Director T.J. Mitchell has done an excellent job in staging this production, elegantly integrating the stairways and contours of the Leverett space. However, a few touches do not work as well as they ought. People clamber in and out of the crates used in the stowaway scenes on the boat to England in such an easy manner that it is all too obvious they have a fake side facing the stage entrances. And the theatrical use of fake blood in the "deaths" toward the end of the play appears contrived...