Word: clashes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Talk to Me Like The Rain is a subtler, more lyrical play, but less effective, partially because there is no really dramatic clash of wills. A man (D.J. Sullivan), who is tired of being "pased around like a dirty postcard," comes home to his woman (Louise Bell), who is sick of waiting for him. They soliloquize, and go to bed. Given such a soporific plot, Sullivan, through some pretty astute nuzzling, still manages to keep the play on its feet. While Miss Bell is supposed to be delicate, she seems just a little too erect and graceful for the role...
...explain their enormous eventual difference in tone. Mister Johnson is really, from beginning to end, the portrait of a happy-go-unlucky man, the saga of a culturally displaced person. A comedy of miscomprehension that explodes into sudden tragedy, it is all the sadder for involving no villains, no clash of good and evil, or even of conscious right and wrong...
...semi-finals, which will be held Thursday night at Evanston, I11., USF will go against Southern Methodist and Iowa will face Temple. The winners will clash in the finals on Friday night...
...Only the labor unions are keeping off the clash between the workers and the Capitalists," Miss Weiss said. "Before the unions, the workers were no more than industrial slaves." She said that without the unions there would be no democracy for the lower classes...
...first three-quarters of her novel, India's Kamala Markandaya, 32, chronicles this head-on culture clash on the purely domestic level, but in the last part Some Inner Fury is rocked by the ferocity of an India passion-bent on independence. In the eye of this hurricane is Author Markandaya's heroine, a grave-eyed, gentle-born girl of 16 named Mira. When her brother Kitsamy brings an Oxford classmate, Richard Marlowe, home with him after graduation, Mira is so blushing-bold as to beg her mother to let her go on an unchaperoned swimming party with...