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...worthy cause. What, after all, is the American musical but a transatlantic cousin of the Viennese operetta whose patrimony also includes the harmonic and rhythmic vitality of jazz? The line from Johann Strauss and Franz Lehar to Frederick Loewe and Richard Rodgers is really very short. Far from being an exotic and irrational entertainment, opera is the most vital and popular of musical forms. Is Mozart's The Magic Flute, composed in the vernacular for the Viennese commercial theater, stuffy high art just because it is 200 years old and occasionally performed at the Met? That would be news...
...come from an author who describes even the design of the plates in The Glass Menagerie. But later, when Sebastian's sexual proclivities are questioned and when Mrs. Venable tells the doctor that her son would have liked him, these stage notes become quite important. Catherine even comments, "Cousin Sebastian was famished for blonds," calling herself and Mrs. Venable his "procuresses...
...cousin Omar and I, with a nerf ball and a wire hanger, turn those rainy, summer afternoons into international basketball tournaments...
...cousin is nine years old, but looks more like Moses Malone, compared to myself, an eight-year old Mugsy Bogues...
...needs it? In parliamentary systems, when a party leader faces election, he generally makes known his Cabinet or shadow cabinet. In America the party leader calls his wife and kids and movie-star cousin to join him on the podium and bless the assembled. How much more democratic it would be if a nominee called up to the podium not his grandchildren but, say, his Secretary of State and Attorney General. Leave Dad and Sis and everyone else you call by first name at home. If you must, do like the ballplayers: give Mom a TV wave...