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...dreams, we are looking through the eyes of an observer in some future time. Similarly, within the play, one of the characters is treated to two distinct temporal visions of her life. Act II, which takes place nearly 20 years after Acts I and III, offers protaganist Kay Conway (Margaret Whitton) a glimpse into the future of herself and her family...
When the play opens, the future holds nothing but promise for the upper middle class Conways. Still youthful and exuberant, the Conway children dress up in old clothes for the party's charades, joking and laughing. The war is over. Robin is safe. Any unresolved problem presents only hope Made, the socialist, wants to see the coal miners strike end in nationalization. Hazel, the beautiful daughter, looks forward to choosing a husband from among her many suitors; Kay is beginning to write a novel. The family hovers on the verge of a future of unlimited potential...
...sharpened over the years as time made cynics of the gay youngsters. Recriminations and jabs fly around the room. Each person is unhappier or less fulfilled than the next. In Act III, the scene switches back to the party in 1919. Kay sitting where we left her as Mrs. Conway finishes her song. In the rest of the evening the audience witnesses the little events that will send the Conways irrevocably toward their destinies...
...Jill Ker Conway, president of Smith, echoes the prevailing view of contemporary technology when she says that "anyone in today's world who doesn't understand data processing is not educated." But she insists that the increasing emphasis on these matters leaves certain gaps. Says she: "The very strongly utilitarian emphasis in education, which is an effect of Sputnik and the cold war, has really removed from this culture something that was very profound in its 18th and 19th century roots, which was a sense that literacy and learning were ends in themselves for a democratic republic...
...unique look at a man reacting naturally to enormous pressures. Truman often had second, more prudent thoughts about what he called his "spasms." Sometimes he would scribble furiously and then stuff the result into his desk while he cooled off; on other occasions, he dictated blisterers to Rose Conway, his longtime personal secretary, and then returned the typescript with a diplomatic directive: "Rose, file it. H.S.T." In either case, he left behind a trail of entertaining and often fascinating documents, a short history of the frustrations of power, written at white heat...