Word: clans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Clan Within. When the showdown came, the Kennedy clan was on hand in force. Watching from the Senate gallery were Teddy's wife, Joan, in a pink frock; Sister Eunice Shriver; and Bobby's wife, Ethel. Temporarily presiding over the session was Bobby himself. Taking the floor against the amendment, Dirksen asked: "If Congress can tell the states by statute this afternoon that they cannot impose a poll tax, why not tell them they cannot impose a cigarette tax or any other tax?" Democratic Leader Mansfield worried that the amendment might endanger the entire voting-rights bill...
Only O'Neill's family is sufficiently doomed to be called tragic. Miller's people are defeated; Williams' clan is haunted, principally by "the long delayed but always-expected something that we live for." The Glass Menagerie is thus the most Chekhovian play of the U.S.'s most Chekhovian playwright. Its mood is mist before the eyes; yet it is propelled as inexorably as the tides. At its heart is the demonic mover of the seemingly motionless-time. The texture of the play is music: nocturnal, poignant and poetic...
...violent and funny: Toshiro Mifune massacres scores of villains, while having to outthink not only bad men but also the clan of bungling innocents whom he is trying to protect, and who keep spoiling his stratagems in their eagerness. It has most of Kurosawa's stylistic tricks: tangles of shrubbery set between you and the action; shots of different people running, connected by fast cutting; omission or understatement of the climax of a comic episode, leaving you to assume that what was going to happen, happened...
...unmistakable clan which now exists among the custodial officers on several levels, the pride with which they talk about the work in the institutions, and the astounding cooperation between every brand of government and the Department of Correction are all directly attributable to McGrath...
Licenses for Trouble. At issue, as the smoke gradually cleared, were family rivalry and the spoils system. The potent Sananikone clan has never forgiven Phoumi Nosavan for kicking out their patriarch, Phoui Sananikone, as Premier six years ago. One of the clan, General Kouprasith Abhay, is military governor of Vientiane, and he has recently been quarreling with a Phoumi partisan, General Siho Lamphouthacoul, over who should control such imports as liquor and medicine, as well as the lucrative fees from opium and gambling dens. As a result, licensing patrols of Kouprasith's soldiers and Siho's police have...