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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beer ain't all! One evening a friend of ours returned from Porky's to my parents' home, pleased to report that "several young college students were there, drinking-of all things -tomato juice!" They were (of course!) drinking Bloody Marys...
...clients. She hailed Colonel Mahdawi as "a symbol of justice." Before the verdict was announced, Mahdawi favored the audience with a history of May Day, said that labor movements paltered along in places like Britain until "the emergence of the Communist Party and the great Soviet Union, sincere friend of our democratic republic." When the applause died down, Defense Counsel Zainab popped up to say: "If my defense of the People's Court and the Iraqi people means that I am a Communist, then I have the honor to be so." Mahdawi read the verdicts amid a storm...
Certainly he gives indications he will provide. Set in a place somewhere in Louisiana that is not altogether unlike a Williams, a Faulkner, a Welty locale, Kopit's play concerns the visit of an old school friend to the home of a robust insurance man, his supremely sensitive wife, and their brattish children. The visitor, Emmanuel Moon, a graciously sinister spectre, says he has come to collect on an adolescent promise made by George "Chopper" Feering, a raging "bull" who raised living standards in the country by convincing dying old men to buy insurance instead of medical care...
WASHINGTON, May 4--Harry S. Truman won't visit the White House he once occupied--even to meet his old friend Sir Winston Churchill...
...very robust one. It is really a school piece, full of ill-chewed borrowings from Joyce and Virginia Woolf. The hero is a sticky, artistic young man-a kind of underdone Dedalus-who rebels weakly against the smothering care of his mother. He gets some support from his friend, a medical student with the sour outlook but none of the roistering profanity of Dedalus' Buck Mulligan. But after a week's timorous escape at a seaside resort, the rebel returns and surrenders to his clucking parent...