Word: dunce
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...megalomaniacal wife; a string of identical Kennedys whose misfortunes (the assassination, Bobby's exile and Ted's plane crash) are attributed to the Chief's ambition and insecurity; and a few foreshortened political standbys like Stevenson, Warren and Wayne Morse. The rhetoric is tired and tiring. J.F. Ken O'Dunc promises "A giant generation / geared for glory, seared in sacrifice"; his successor pledges the achievement of "the Smooth Society" which "has room for all; / for each, a house, a car, a family, / A private psychoanalyst, a dog, / And rows of gardens, neatly trimmed and hedged"; Bobby, after slaughtering the usurper...
Playwright Garson's conceit is to parody and paraphrase Macbeth; President Johnson is represented in the title role and Mrs. Johnson is Lady Macbeth. King Duncan, renamed John Ken O'Dunc, is clearly President Kennedy, and Duncan's sons become Bobby and Teddy. Nothing loath to be malicious, Garson argues that MacBird (Stacy Keach) lures John Ken O'Dunc to his Texas ranch and arranges his assassination in order to become king, while his henchmen sabotage Teddy Ken O'Dunc's airplane. In hand-to-hand combat with Bobby Ken O'Dunc, MacBird...