Word: hates
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Spent & Scarred. In dissonant vignettes, the play shows how the pair is welded together in hurt and hate. At one point, Edgar tries to demonstrate his virility by dancing to the Entry of the Boyars. Suddenly the whisky-soaked, lead-limbed captain is transformed into the dapper young officer of long ago. As he elegantly foots the steps, Olivier conjures up unseen reviewing stands, flying banners, and the martial music of the parade ground. But the inner man is spent, scarred and empty. He loses balance and slumps to the floor as if someone had leveled a hammer...
...vision is the leftism of the '30s, since it assumes that the root of all evil is economic. A 1939 audience would have understood the play as an attack on predatory capitalist morality. A 1967 audience is more likely to relish it as an indictment of greed, hate, and the Just for power at anytime, in any place...
Angriest of all are the John Birchers, whose leader, Robert Welch, was eviscerated by Buckley in a series of articles. As a result, even though Buckley works are still carried in Birch bookshops, Buckley now receives much more hate mail from the far right than the far left. A wall of his office in Review's midtown Manhattan building is papered with nasty letters. "Buckley's articles cost the Birchers their respectability with conservatives," says Richard Nixon. "I couldn't have accomplished that. Liberals couldn't have, either...
...proposition was this. All the evil in the world, the race hate and his own decline was caused by the devil and the CIA. It was the same shop-worn devil but now, in this century, no longer served by solitary, gutted souls but by an institution. There is so little poetry in the CIA, so much that is pedestrian and mean that no one but George could dare to attribute cosmic force to it. He carried it off though. He always had a cigarette in his mouth when he said it and tilted his head back waiting...
...than half believe him, that he refused to spy for them when he performed in East Germany; when they sent some woman agent to coax him he got furious and said wouldn't you like to go to hell and tell some of his friends. He thinks that they hate him because the woman was arrested a few months later and they think he was responsible, even though the woman always went about in purple and orange clothes and wore a wig and was known...