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...TIME, Dec. 6, 1954), had the welcome mat pulled out from under him. His invitation, issued by the Swarthmore chapter of the Students for Democratic Action, was vetoed by S.D.A.'s parent Americans for Democratic Action. Explained an A.D.A. official: ". . . We wouldn't invite convicted gangsters and dope peddlers to address us. We don't see why we should invite a convicted traitor...
...Tyrone family does not make a pretty picture. The mother (Inga Tidblad) is a dope fiend. The father is an actor (as O'Neill's father was) and a monumental skinflint. Jamie Tyrone is a wastrel and a drunkard like his father, and Edmund (Jarl Kulle), obviously patterned on O'Neill himself, is a consumptive. These four haunted characters spend their long day's journey into night gnawing at each other. They sit around the living room table drinking, talking, baring their minds, hating each other, yet cemented together in one miserable unit of family love...
...true self forever." The true selves of these complex people have been twisted into and out of shape by life. Edmund thinks Jamie is mad when Jamie says, "The dead part of me hopes you won't get well." He adds that maybe their father is glad that dope "has got Mama again! He wants company, he doesn't want to be the only corpse around the house...
...federal institution, has already won a partial victory over the habit. When he comes home, however, his determination to leave the cards and the heroin and to find a job as a drummer soon breaks again. In just a few days, a lying and rapacious wife, a preying dope peddler, and his own weakness send Frankie screaming to a locked room, to break the habit once more...
...more drug addicts (60,000) than all other Western nations combined. In the past three years the Federal Bureau of Narcotics has compiled a list of names and addresses of 30,000 known addicts, and the list is growing at the rate of 1,000 a month. ¶Illegal dope traffic has trebled since World War IL At the end of the war, there was one addict to every 10,000 persons in the U.S.; in 1955 there was one to every 3,000. Thirteen percent of all addicts in the country are under 21. ¶ Approximately...