Word: dad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your cover story graphically points out that the U.S., a democratic society, has a Utopian, paternalistic, benevolent dictator. Your article should have ended: "The people consider him a remarkably effective Dad, the Commander in Chief of his family, to whom his children can't say no without a verbal or physical spanking or without Daddy's sulking...
...delivers its message by telephone, and rings in some crude but effective suspense from the mischief wrought by two nubile teen-agers (Movie Newcomers Andi Garrett and Sarah Lane). With Mom and Dad away on an overnight trip, Andi invites Sarah out to her remote country mansion to help baby-sit. Crank calls are the girls' favorite diversion. The usual ploy: "I saw what you did and I know who you are." It is a dubious icebreaker at best, but downright troublesome when addressed to an unstable suburbanite (John Ireland) who that very evening has carved up his wife...
...young brave, was responsible for arranging the ceremonial interment of his noble father. He entered his mother's wigwam to console her. The tepee was racked with her sobs. Putting a comforting hand on her shoulder, the young Indian assured her, "Don't worry mom, I'll bury dad." "No!" replied the old woman staunchly through her tears...
...Bump's grandfather is the peppery and frustrated duplicate of the grandmother in Edward Albee's The Sandbox. The silent father is a variation on Albee's laconic, spiritless father in The American Dream. Mother is the voracious woman of Arthur Kopit's Oh Dad, Poor Dad, in fright wigs a la Tiny Alice. Lakme wears the little-girl dresses that the sex-hungry baby sitter wore in Oh Dad; Sigfrid half chokes her to death, as the boy in that play strangled the baby sitter. And the mortal baiting of the homosexual in Bump follows...
...meanwhile, New York's Phoenix Theater, under the leadership of idealistic Producers T. Edward Hambleton and Norris Houghton, had been putting on everything from Oh Dad, Poor Dad ... to the Western première of Russia's The Dragon, a banned-at-home critique of Stalin and Khrushchev. In the way of the worthy, the Phoenix had run on a healthy yearly deficit. Joining with the APA seemed a natural evolution. The Phoenix yearned for a permanent repertory group-their own efforts to establish one having failed-so they could eliminate the traumas of one-shot productions, plan...