Word: deviling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Adams also fears that "we have almost eliminated public discussion in this country. How the devil we are going to restore it, I don't know. There might be something in these citizen-band radios. One can almost imagine the time when they might be used by people who had political ideas and wished to express them to a larger public...
...Loyalist sympathizers. Often it is simply a matter of mob violence. When a crowd of Patriots seized a Massachusetts customs official named John Malcohn, a witness recalls: "Being disarmed of sword, cane, hat and wig, he was genteelly tarred and feathered [until] he had more the appearance of the devil than any human being." Malcohn survived that mauling ?only to be trapped by another mob three months later. This time "he was stript stark naked, one of the severest cold nights this winter, his body covered all over with tar, then with feathers, his arm dislocated in tearing...
...Devil's Disciple. The Summer School Repertory Theater is starting its three-show season with its obligatory bicentennial tribute--George Bernard Shaw's The Devil's Disciple, and the Loeb Drama Center is already decked out in red, white and blue bunting to publicize the July 4 (when else?) opening of this British comic melodrama about the American Revolution...
...Devil's Disciple will star James Valentine, an experienced Shavian actor, in the lead role of General "Johnny" Burgoyne. Valentine has appeared in the show twice before--in two different roles--so he should know what he's doing...
Previews of The Devil's Disciple July 1, 2 and 3 at 8 p.m. Gala gourmet buffet and show July 4 at 7 p.m., including entertainment by the Proposition--Boston's most famous improvisational theater group--doing excerpts from their show The Boston Tea Party. Opens again July 6 and runs through July 24, with performances Monday through Friday at 8 p.m., and Saturday at 5 and 9 p.m. Preview tickets $5.50, regular tickets $6.50 and $7.95, rush seats (one half hour before curtain...