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...Harvard. And the undergraduate philosophizing that he purged from his system in The Great God Brown is both more portentous and less superficial than Kopit's sexual fantasy. His play deals with an artist who has no capacity for work and an architect who has no flair. Dion Anthony, the artist, convinces the world (and specifically the women) that he is inspired. Brown, the architect, has a great ability to produce, but what he has to offer can only be bought, not loved...
Young playwrights, particularly when they have a great deal to say, feel an impulse to say it all at once. No exception, O'Neill indulges in every thematic permutation. Both his protagonists are made heroes, and both are villains. Dion, as played by Mitch Ryan, is less a poseur than a mixed-up kid; Brown (Richard Mulligan) is less an organization man than a hard worker. An these antithetical characters love and admire each other as a prerequisite of their hatred. O'Neill comes out both for and against his mystical idea of "talent," and for and against his image...
Through it all we hear the refrain of the semi-religious, semi-philosophical, semi-Freudian collegiate discussion. Early in the play Brown asks Dion to room with him at college, and he might just as well have added "so we can philosophize together in private, instead of detaining this audience...
Candidate John Kennedy emerged from the tidy city hall in Nashua, N.H. and walked down Main Street, smiling, shaking hands, waving as he went. A crowd of 100 chattering well-wishers flowed after him, and at his side. Royal Dion, a dry cleaner and local politico, kept up a round of introductions. The weather was snowy and cold; the crowd was in fine humor and distinctly pro-Kennedy. Passing Sardy's restaurant, Senator Kennedy paused to wave at the patrons through the steamy window, went on to accept the best wishes of a contingent of grocers at the California...
...contrast to his classic, gang-style death, Roger Touhy was buried quietly, with no flowers, no eulogies, in Mount Carmel Cemetery, known as the Boot Hill of gangsters. Near by are the tombs of Frank ("The Enforcer") Nitti and Paul ("Needle Nose") La Briola. Dion O'Banion is also buried there, and near the Touhy plot is a grave site reserved for Anthony ("Tough Tony") Accardo, kingpin of Chicago's rackets, and present unchallenged boss of the Capone...