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...Follies as well as in certain passages of Neil Simon's latest work. (Without being lit crit about it all. I even find something in these plays, call it perhaps an aura of faded expectation, that reminds me of the heroes and heroincs one finds in the novels of Edith Wharton and Henry James.) To grasp for a descriptive phrase. Furth seems to be in the process of fashioning a comedy of lost possibilities. Twigs--as it plays the lives of its three sisters off against one another--could almost take for a second epigraph the words sung by Benjamin...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Towards a Comedy of Lost Possibilities | 10/28/1971 | See Source »

...second half of the bill, Robert? by Christopher Durang, is a psychological farce. Jane can't figure out what's going on. Her mother is Edith Fromage, who says she invented cheese. Her brother kisses her mother passionately, only to turn into her father, who in turn becomes her grandfather, who later becomes a French count. Jane's psychologist and his wife change sexes to put more fun in their marriage. At the end of the play Jane is cured, sort of, and the psychologist and his wife (or husband) recite in unison a Freudian explanation of her problem, while...

Author: By Richard Bowker, | Title: Vernal Point and Robert? | 10/23/1971 | See Source »

...shop worn material; but at least it gets a lot of laughs out of it. The author also displays the greatest comic gift of all, knowing when to end his play before the audience starts to tire of the joke. The actors are all skillful, especially Caroline Denney as Edith Fromage and Roger Mead as Jane's Protean brother...

Author: By Richard Bowker, | Title: Vernal Point and Robert? | 10/23/1971 | See Source »

...bill also contains a provision sponsored by Rep. Edith Green (D-Ore.) which forbids sex discriminatory admission policies. The bill would allow non coeducational schools to remain segregated, but would require coeducational schools to ignore sex as a factor in admissions. At present, nearly all state universities have quotas on female admissions...

Author: By Peter Shapiro, | Title: House Unit Approves Wider College Grants | 10/2/1971 | See Source »

...points of view kill one another off so that no action is taken in this session. The second point of view is the one that would provide unrestricted grants of money to institutions on the basis of some formula, which is usually expressed--as it has been by Edith Green of the House Committee--as a certain number of dollars per student enrolled...

Author: By Robert Decherd, | Title: Sitting on the Edge of a Precipice | 9/20/1971 | See Source »

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