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...rest of the characters are normal, in a rather hideous way. There is solares, the Mexican whom Mrs. E-C marries, and his appalling family, which looks like something out of Margaret Mead. Although the Solares relatives sing, screech, and dance, they spend most of the time slumbering all over the stage like Mexican bookends. As the lusty Mrs. Lopez, however, Marita Reid creates a vivid character. Adding two more very modest virtues to the play are a brief and irrelevant comic bit by Jean Stapleton, as a vulgar waitress, and the rather intriguing perspective of Oliver Smith's oceanside...
...Quite out of order," the Speaker ruled, adding his "hope that whoever is responsible will see that it is put right." Exuberant Sir Herbert, who had playfully tossed the egg toward the Labor benches during a debate on food prices, vainly tried to cover the hideous remains with a piece of paper. "I did not realize that it was a real egg." he stammered abjectly. "I thought it was a crock...
...categories: 1) "official reporting," i.e., government handouts, 2) "unofficial reporting," i.e., stories from any other source. The second, he was told, was espionage in Communist Czechoslovakia, even though it would be considered routine reporting in any country of the free world. His chief interrogator, a man with a "hideous smile" who said simply, "Just call me 'The Boss,' " confronted Oatis with examples of his "unofficial" reporting from Oatis' own notebook, including notes on the stories from the secret police agent...
...more memorably the brutality young boys can show each other, the elaborate code of honor that prevails among them. "In winter," wrote Orwell, "your nose ran continually, your fingers were too numb to button your shirt . . . and there was the daily nightmare of football -the cold, the mud, the hideous greasy...
...death house at Sing Sing, Julius Rosenberg and his wife Ethel listened intently as the special news bulletin came in over the prison radio: President Eisenhower, after due deliberation, refused to commute their death sentences. The two convicted atom spies were guilty of a hideous crime against mankind, the President said, and they must atone for it with their lives; their crime of giving atomic and other secrets of the first magnitude to Russia "involves the deliberate betrayal of the entire nation, and could very well result in the death of many, many thousands of innocent citizens...