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...Gone is the heavy-handed, generalized dialogue which intrudes upon the earlier action-packed dramas that span years of time. Moon for the Misbegotten is pared down to its essentials--the language is true to each character and the entire play takes place from one afternoon through the following dawn...
...night. Although the dialogue is convincing and engrossing, O'Neill rarely achieves eloquence. Like the farm girl, Josie, the audience is surprised to hear poetry: "the night I promised I'd give you has just begun, our night that'll be different from all the others, with a dawn that won't creep over dirty window panes but will wake in the sky like a promise of God's peace in the soul's dark sadness. Will you listen to me Jim! I must be a poet." But the sensitivity and experience of the Loeb cast imbue the language with...
...dawn the rains began to subside, but a fog shrouded the city. Some 1,800 South Dakota National Guardsmen attending a summer camp joined the rescue operations. Mayor Donald Barnett ordered police to arrest any sightseers who ghoulishly descended on the stricken city. All gas service was shut off. The injured filled the city's hospitals and overwhelmed medical facilities at nearby Ellsworth Air Force Base. But for many there was no help. At week's end the toll of known dead passed 125, and another 500 were still missing...
...Owen Rachleff calls "library witchcraft": it seems to have been largely concocted from books, perhaps combined with some rudimentary witchcraft practices of existing covens in the Hampshire hills. Kelly himself is one of the founders of a Gardnerian spin-off called the New Reformed Orthodox Order of the Golden Dawn, and has rewritten many of Gardner's rituals and created new ones...
...that intriguing question several years ago, when they found microscopic fossils in ancient South African rocks. These tiny traces of life indicated that single-celled creatures existed as long as 3.1 billion years ago. Now a team headed by Schopf himself has found evidence that could push the dawn of life back at least another 200 million years...