Word: fathered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THERE are a number of reasons why Alderman Tim Evans didn't win last week's mayoral election in Chicago. The biggest problem was pointed out by Chicago Tribune columnist Mike Royko, the consummate Chicago political pundit. "It boils down to what the late Mayor Richard J. Daley"--father of the new mayor, Richard M. Daley--"used to say when one of his candidates lost. The reporters would ask: 'Why did he lose?' With a straight face, Daley would always say: 'He lost 'cuz he didn't get enough votes...
This Daley is not the man his father was, but it is extremely difficult for me to have any confidence in the new administration. His father was an abject racist who did everything he could to exclude Blacks from holding important positions in government. Daley has pledged to give everyone a chance and is keeping some holdovers from the Washington administration, including the police superintendant and the head of the housing authority, but his previous record as Cook County State's Attorney, where he hired no Black or Hispanic lawyers, leaves me doubtful about his sincerity or that things really...
...felt that I wanted to dedicate this race to my father who died three months ago," Whitten says. "He saw my first race in high school when I got creamed...
Miss Julie is a long one-act play revolving around a single crisis. During the festival of Midsummer Eve, when rules of social interaction are gleefully abandoned, the count's daughter Miss Julie (Patricia Goldman) flirts brazenly with her father's valet, Jean (Daniel Hurewitz), in front of Jean's fiancee, the cook Christine (Martha Lane Moore). It is not clear who is seducing whom, but Julie and Jean soon overcome their inhibitions, and when Christine falls asleep, the two find an excuse to flee to the bedroom. Immediately after, they realize that the ensuing scandal could destroy them both...
Connell's performance is also effective, although Norman's explosive presence dominates the stage. As Austin, he nicely portrays the character's outer conflict between halting his brother's moral decline and saving his own career. He also copes with his deeper problems of dealing with his unseen father's alcoholism and destitution and his own dissatisfaction with his staid family life...