Word: gilroy
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Subject Was Roses, by Frank D. Gilroy. It takes a quiet patience to hear a heart beat or skip a beat. It takes the gentlest of touches to put a compassionate finger on the place where people love and hurt one another, the spot where the human skin is less than skin-deep. As Who'll Save the Plowboy? suggested in 1962, and as The Subject Was Roses further confirms, Frank D. Gilroy is the sort of playwright who possesses these qualities...
...when he prepares to leave both he measures his maturity by showing that he is able to forgive, accept and love them as they are. Like his hero Playwright Gilroy has the clarity of insight to recognize that it is not the sin of the fathers or mothers that are visited on the sons, but certain almost immutable patterns of human temperament and behavior that are repeated and repeated and repeated and for which no one can rightly be blamed...
...intensity of feeling that Gilroy achieves in Roses is sometimes choked off by the drab, laconic, colloquial dialogue his characters use, and a few bursts of eloquence might have been risked to vary the tempo of speech. Whoever chose Sheen, Dailey and Albertson for their roles must have been working under a sign of the zodiac favorable to perfect casting, and Ulu Grosbard's direction belongs in the category of craft that conceals craft. In The Subject Was Roses, Broadway has that rarest of dramas, a play that dares to show its face, and not its heels, to reality...
...that the initials were his. Now there is a flurry over the new Kennedy half-dollar, and it's the Reds again. Complaints are coming into the Denver mint that there is a hammer and sickle on the coin. Wearily, the mint's Chief Sculptor and Engraver Gilroy Roberts, 59, explains: "It's my monogram, a G. and an R. in script, combined. It might look like two sickles maybe. But it looks nothing like a hammer and sickle at all. You've got to have a slanted mind to see that there...
...Save the Plowboy?, by Frank D. Gilroy, slices close to the center of three lives that war, marriage and illusions have haphazardly drawn together...