Word: damns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...says: "It is only a matter of time before we get the same 60-40 split that the Venezuelans announced in December." When Western oilmen remind him that their contracts run into the next century, Tariki replies: "Any concession between a government and a company is not worth a damn if it does not please the people...
...baffled reader may well ask, in Desmond's own words: "God damn it all to Hell, what on earth [is] going on?" Yet he will be persuaded by Author Cusack's virtuosity with word and image that the confusion has its own logic...
...this to the personnel of the current HDC Workshop production. They play Lefty with great conviction, and for all its silliness and narrowness, for all the rigidity of its economic determinism, they prove that the old script has considerable power. Nobody nowadays seems to give a very passionate damn about the poor and downtrodden, including perhaps Mr. Odets, but he did then, and these actors spill out their guts on his behalf in rousing fashion...
...president of the Darwin League. He makes fiery speeches in favor of woman suffrage ("Women seem to be people-let them vote"). He goes lolly-gagging about the landscape in an avant-garde motorcar known as a Firestone Columbus. And at every opportunity he comes crashing down, and damn the Spode, on the side of lip rouge and attached collars...
...good and great plays, adventurously chosen and well performed, will be constantly on view in Boston. Congratulations to Stephen Aaron '57, John Eyre '58, and Dean Gitter '56, the managing directors of the company. Congratulations to audiences, present and future, for being in on what promises to be a damn good thing...