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Word: edna (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Somewhere imbedded in the bladder of the Administration someone is reading Albee plays. The line "rights and responsibilities" was taken from A Dclicate Balance. The play concerns a family group headed by a man named. Tobias and his wife Agnes. Into their home come their best friends, Edna and Harry. They occupy a room and give as their reason that they were sitting at home one day and were caught by a terror. They never really explain what that terror is. They issue no demands but refuse to leave. Tobias, pressured by his 35-year-old daughter, must decide whether...

Author: By Thomas P. Southwick, | Title: Rights and Responsibilities A Delicate Balance | 2/18/1970 | See Source »

...play the social system is back in some kind of order. Tobias never really made a clear decision, but for some reason Edna and Harry left anyway. A crisis has been avoided, though not through an active decision. "Well, they've safely gone," says Agnes at the end of the play, "and we'll forget... quite soon...

Author: By Thomas P. Southwick, | Title: Rights and Responsibilities A Delicate Balance | 2/18/1970 | See Source »

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