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...wave of protest began when Edmund S. Barry, principal of 99 percent white Grover Cleveland Junior High warned parents that 600 white students in his district would be shifted to predominantly Negro schools by the new plan...
Police Commissioner Edmund L. McNamara determined how many should be assigned to keep order at the concert after the question had been passed upstairs by five subordinates, according to the Rev. Richard E. Mumma...
This confrontation resembles that between Edmund and his father in Long Day's Journey, except that Forman's doesn't come...
...vividly as their individual torments. O'Neill has provided the lines for this, Ginn hasn't given the direction. Long Day's Journey abounds with sentences interrupted or regretted by their speaker, moments of nakedness in which Jamie's concern breaks through his mask of cynicism, or Edmund's raw anger smashes his attempts at peacemaking...
With the exception of Frances Gitter's performance of Mary, the actors did not play these moments of contrast, or at best glossed over them. Carl Nagin does Edmund as the traditional Sensitive Young Man. His bitterness is searing, but his tenderness is embarrassed and whispered. Daniel Seltzer as James has much the same problem. He vehemently attacks his lines until the effect is dulled the same way listening to a jackhammer for three hours induces deafness. It is only in the play's magnificent last act when Edmund and James are both drunk that Nagin and Seltzer managed...