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...primary aim of GSHA is to gain acceptance of homosexuals by society as positively valued Individuals. In this respect, GSHA functions in several capacities. First, GSHA is attempting to promote an understanding of the homosexual and of homosexuality by sponsoring educational activities, such as lectures, research, discussions, and dialog with groups in the academic and local communities, which are designed to change and correct existing attitudes toward homosexuality. GSHA has initially been involved in speaking engagements at universities and churches. The response to such a service has been extraordinary, and the sincere dialog has been effective in creating a better...
...stylistic problem of How I Won The War is the unintelligibility of a healthy chunk of its dialog. A lot of laughs must simply be drowned in garble...
...stage business in harness with Shakespeare's verbal wit or verbal wisdom. Often he finds success in pointing a line with a gesture, but sometimes too, his compositions are simply too full of movement for good focus. On a few occasions, he has literally obscured potentially funny or significant dialog by drawing the audience's attention to some simultaneous comic bit. In a single instance, he shows an excess of reverence to the lines, freezing an admirably raucous forest banquet to a tableau, while Jaques (Kenneth Tiger) puts the "Seven Ages of Men" through their paces. On balance, though...
Mayer's inversions are often tragically funny in context; Drew again, on being excluded from the business operations: "Them boys is getting a damn sight too cute." Fisk's dialog masterfully combines bad grammar and vernacular with innumerable phrases from the Bible. "Poor suffering bastards," he yells at the crowd he has cheated, "You want your money? It has gone where the woodbine twineth...
Susan Channing as Josie Mansfield is perhaps too sophisticated given Mayer's dialog, but in the third act she is genuinely moving, and always extremely beautiful. As Ned Stokes, Fisk's romantic rival and assassin, Kenneth Shapiro skillfully conveys youth and attractiveness, while remaining intrinsically hollow and middle-class. Mayer knows that Stoke's aspirations to Fiskdom are pathetic and inevitably doomed to failure, and Shapiro gets this across...