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...Abner's creator and one of the big attractions of the celebraton, had titillated them with a long chuckling monologue-"I live in Cambridge, Massachusetts, just a stone's throw from Harvard.... As for John Kenneth Galbraith, well [chuckle], he's by far the best American economist since Edna St. Vincent Mllay.... I think the bedwetting, lunatic left knows that it's lost.... We're in for something ghastly this fall.... My prediction is that there will be killings at Harvard Square this fall...
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...
...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...
Divorced. Groucho Marx, 74, most durable of slapstick's famed brothers; by Edna Marx, 38, his third wife; on grounds of mental cruelty; after 15 years of marriage, in Santa Monica, Calif. Settlement: $21,000 alimony, $337,000 from Groucho's TV residuals and 50% of the proceeds from the sale of their $350,000 home...
...diplomats, the liberal writers and intelligentsia. As they watched Albee's comedy of menace, laughter came in awkward places. For the Czechs, the plight of a suburban American family whose neighbors suddenly come to stay was transformed into an agonizing allegory of their national tragedy. When Harry and Edna arrogantly explain why they know their invasion is welcome, angry whispers swept the theater...