Word: commenting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...trouble with Heterosexual is that the play does not rise to its climactic moment but runs down to it like an unwound clock. As comedy, it is fitful; as a social comment, it is fretful, without being particularly penetrating or fresh. Considering how talky the evening is, Burgess Meredith's direction wings it along at a dancing pace with frenetic motion and effervescent, semi-psychedelic lighting. It may be an ironic reflection of the health, resilience and confidence of the U.S. spirit that the play, despite transparent distaste for American capitalism, was supported, promoted, and frequently applauded...
Goldby lets the pace stall at moments to let the dialogue sink in, as if Orton had some comment to make on life, instead of mocking all comment on life or death. Orton was a promising young English playwright (Entertaining Mr. Sloane) who was murdered by his friend (Kenneth Halliwell) last August (TIME, Sept. 15). Both his fate and some of his lines suggest that he had looked intimately into the abyss of existence. But Loot is not despairing, and even its shock effects are surprisingly good-natured...
...night, Mrs. Warren P. Knowles, wife of the state's Republican Governor, attended a McCarthy rally in Madison. Postmaster General Lawrence F. O'Brien denounced her for doing this, and said he "understood" that she was "busily engaged" in promoting a cross-over. Mrs. Knowles was not available for comment...
Undergraduate travel fellowships are awarded by the College Committee headed by Dean Glimp. Glimp could not be reached for comment, but it is expected that his group will follow a policy similar to that...
Thirdly, McCarthy no longer has the advantage of being able to speak almost exclusively to the issue of the war. With his "victory" in New Hampshire, and his insistence that he now has his eyes on the White House, the Senator must comment more extensively on domestic problems, and indeed, outline more specific proposals for getting the United States out of Vietnam. The recent departure of his two chief press aides, complaining that McCarthy was not addressing all the issues, along with the impending defection of advisor-speechwriter Richard Goodwin hint at the beginning of the breakdown of that rare...