Word: deathwatch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Their production of Genet's Deathwatch is no main event. The prison in which the play is set is suggested so stingily by a few black and white stripes that it looks like a mutated peppermint stick. A fishing net hangs inexplicably above the stage, and the lighting is dim and obscure. Someone apparently forgot that people pay their money to see something, and deserve more than arty darkness...
...Gibbs of De French, the Mrs. Webb of Dixie Dewitt, the Emily of Barbara Blanchard '60, and the George of Philip D. Harvey '62. This was definitely the finest HDC show since Death of a Salesman in 1956, and the finest show by any Harvard group since Deathwatch...
...Deathwatch. The outcome had actually been decided long in advance, ordained by the strange way the Labor Party is run, in which labor leaders, casting a bloc of a million union votes at a time, can always outvote the so-called constituency parties, which represent the actual British voter. In union halls and smoke-filled rooms, all the big unions had registered their stands and committed their huge bloc votes last summer. When the conference chairman banged his opening gavel in the big Scarborough auditorium, only the delegates representing the various constituency parties remained free to swing their votes...
...Deathwatch. At any time during the past few years Caryl Chessman might have saved his life by appealing to the Governor of California to exercise executive clemency and commute the death sentence to life imprisonment.**** But Chessman's prickly, demanding ego stands in the way. "Caryl Chessman has not sought executive clemency from me," said Governor Brown last October. "To the contrary, he has declared that he seeks only vindication. This I cannot give him. The evidence of his guilt is overwhelming . . . His attitude has been one of steadfast arrogance and contempt." But with his mail running...