Word: hellings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drown in the abyss-heaven or hell...
Miss Picker has a talent for writing dialogue; the best scenes in The Garden bring two characters face-to-face. But when three or four are gathered togther, all hell breaks loose. The ensemble scenes seem curiously inaccurate. Everyone talks as if he had forgotten anyone else was present. I think The Garden would play passably--perhaps well--if a virtuoso actress were found for the part of Sophia. Certainly the play deserves a better production than the one it is presently receiving at Agassiz. Nervous acting, and very little directing at all, have emphasized the difficulties of the script...
...greatly to be feared that Britain's John Arden is just such a playwright. In this play he has managed to fulminate for very nearly three hours on General Sherman's admirably succinct text: War is hell...
...rather see Lyndon Johnson raise taxes than rely on Federal Reserve Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr. to make the nation's money still tighter. Sums up Walter C. Gorey, head of his own San Francisco brokerage firm: "When Mr. Martin puts his foot on the brake, he scares hell out of the big investors and the little old ladies and orphans...
...dissonant scrape of protest. Based on a woman novelist's diatribe against the double standard in Sweden at the time of World War I, Couples is a flawlessly performed showpiece directed by Mai Zetterling, a former Swedish film star who apparently intends to raise all kinds of hell on the other side of the camera. She begins by corralling three young women in a Stockholm maternity hospital and ends with a long, joyless look at a squalling baby. In the interim, she pours scorn over all the corrupt, vain, stupid and ineffectual males who have brought her heroines...