Word: humes
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...slow, garrulous leak into the sands of death. The trivia of her handbag and stray threads of memory sustain her, together with a fossil of a husband who is scarcely seen and seldom heard. In Krapp's Last Tape, the dialogue is incestuous. A 69-year-old man (Hume Cronyn) communes with his recorded self of earlier birthdays and indulges a ravenous appetite for bananas. Krapp is another of Beckett's incorrigible gas bags, an amusing aspect of a playwright who has been so widely heralded for the austerity of his prose...
...that almost everybody-except the most uncompromising Catholics and Protestants, such as the Irish Republican Army and the Ulster Vanguard-seemed to find something in it to respect. Brian Faulkner, Protestant leader of Ulster's dominant Unionist Party, said that the paper contained "clear and logical proposals." John Hume, a Bogside Catholic member of the Social Democratic and Labor Party, thought it showed "the first glimmerings of reality." Prime Minister Jack Lynch of the Republic of Ireland called it "a useful contribution...
...here they are, in LARC'S debut, three hungry, enormously attractive actors-Hume Cronyn, Eli Wallach and Anne Jackson-taking stylish licks at a play that has far more seasoning than substance. It is a generational saga of American life from the late 19th century to the present, a la Our Town, from Grover Cleveland and his mistress to Masters and Johnson. With obvious delight and gusto, the key actors play many men and women at various ages, and they are awfully good at it. The play concerns a clan that manufactures buttons, but Playwright Robison seems to have...
...William Cardinal Conway, Roman Catholic Primate of All Ireland, said in a radio broadcast that he would like to ask MacStiofáin, "What right have you to say, against the manifest feeling of the Irish people as a whole, that this [violence] should go on?" Londonderry M.P. John Hume, a leader of the Social Democratic and Labor Party, judged that "a solution can be negotiated now without shedding another drop of Irish blood." Derry units of the I.R.A. felt compelled to call a "Tell-the-People" meeting to explain their policies to the residents of barricaded Bogside and Creggan...
...Catholics, whose immediate demands had been met by the end of the Stormont government, and by a British promise to begin releasing terrorist suspects who had been interned since last summer. "Very nearly 100% of the people in my area favor a stop to the bombing now," said John Hume, M.P. for Londonderry and a leading Catholic moderate...