Word: elder
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...density, scope and genius of Joyce's book, this is Behan's Portrait of the Artist As a Young Man. With a loving fidelity, Playwright Frank McMahon has pasted together a play that is more of a stage scrapbook, an episodic family album in which the elder Behan (Niall Toibin) sits at the edge of the stage and acts as a kind of chorus commentator on his earlier self (Frank Grimes...
Other plays have shown the depth of Negro travail. Lonnie Elder Ill's Ceremonies in Dark Old Men focuses on a pitiably poor father who tries to rear his sons in honesty only to find that the survival value of honesty in his situation is very low. In Charles Gordone's No Place to Be Somebody, a savvy young man who idolizes an ex-con man tries to form his own black Mafia and dies in the attempt...
...people in Dwight, what happened to Diana seems to be news from another planet. As one elder explained: "There is no radicalism in Dwight. It was a contact she made outside of this town, and thank God, she didn't bring it back." Diana's father is equally puzzled, but absolutely sure of one thing: "Even though there is a big difference of opinion as to whether she's right or wrong, I'm sure that in her own heart she conscientiously felt she was right. She wasn't doing this for any other gain...
Forged or Forced. Thieu's ire was directed particularly at two Deputies, Hoang Ho and Tran Ngoc Chau. Both were accused of having had "contact with the Communists." Chau admitted to having been in touch with his elder brother, a North Vietnamese intelligence officer, but said that he was trying to persuade him to "renounce Communism." U.S. sources, including John Paul Vann, chief of the U.S. pacification effort in the Mekong Delta region, and retired Major General Edward G. Lansdale, a counterinsurgency expert with long service in South Viet Nam, have stated that Chau reported his meetings not only...
...Alan F. Guttmacher, president of Planned Parenthood-World Population and elder statesman of the birth-control movement, tried to turn the tables with a medical metaphor. "There have been undesirable side effects from these hearings," he said. "They have created a sense of great alarm." Guttmacher cited polls indicating that almost one-fifth of the American women who had been using the Pill had abruptly abandoned it, while as many more were thinking of doing...