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...SOUTHERN TOWNS breed insanity. The stagnant air and oppressive mugginess drive their inhabitants crazy. Eccentricities grow into neuroses and simpletons live their empty lives in third floor attics or jilted spinsters spend decades frightening little children who walk on their lawns. In the Harvard Premiere Society's Complex, undergraduate Forrest M. Stone improvises on this theme, turning a modern apartment complex in Alabama into a way-station for a variety of misfits and lunatics...
Complex, a new play by undergraduate Forrest Stone, is not a simple thing. You can choose the syllable to accent in the title, just for a start. If you choose to accent the first, then you arrive at the setting for the play, an apartment complex in the South. If you choose the second, then you have a description of the interaction between the two groups in the complex, a wealthy madman who lives on the brink of falling into a fantasy world and the building's maintenance crew who live on another brink, the brink of unemployment...
...sense of urgency has prompted business lobbyists to use more aggressive tactics. On the common situs bill, explains Forrest Rettgers, executive vice president of the NAM, "we overlooked nothing." Rettgers even lobbied black Congressmen, whom business groups previously had ignored, telling them that minority contractors, who employ mainly nonunion workers, would be hurt by the bill's passage...
...civil rights marches of the '60s? A few people insisted that Roots' impact would be transitory. Said black New York Representative Charles Rangel: "It helps people identify and gets conversations started, but I can't see any lasting effect." Black Literature Professor Leon Forrest at Northwestern University believes that if the show had been televised during the ferment of the '60s, it might have served as a catalyst. "But we are now in a period of some apathy and inwardness...
...year of TV soaps: "considerable," "sizable," "baffled," "stupefied" waits. But then, there seems to be no reason to hurry. Tended by a small army of admiring blacks, the Mayfields and Kendals have nothing much to do except dawdle and mope. "I am 55 years old this month," says Forrest at one point. "Never say 'Time flies'; it has seemed like forever...