Word: kowalskis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Williams has peopled the U.S. stage with characters whose vibrantly durable presences stalk the corridors of a playgoer's memory: Amanda Wingfield, the fussy, garrulous, gallant mother of Glass Menagerie; Streetcar's Blanche DuBois, Southern gentlewoman turned nymphomaniac, and its Stanley Kowalski, the hairy ape in a T shirt...
...uproar mounted, President Kennedy called the Pentagon to see what all the shouting was about. Connecticut's Democratic Congressman Frank Kowalski, a West Pointer ('30) and retired colonel, demanded an investigation of West Pointer Walker (class of '31). Said he: Walker has done nothing wrong, he should be vindicated. If not, he should be given the works." And the Army decided to put General Ted Walker on the shelf until it could find out if his political views outbalanced his fighting talent...
...condemn the actors, who struck me as a competent lot. Joan DeWeese, as Blanche, acted the final mad scene with aloof dignity. It is Mr. Murray's fault, I think, that she never revealed her sensuality, her nymphomaniacal craving after Stanley Kowalski. Mitch Ryan, as Kowalski, was splendidly grubby, violent, and stupid, but he too never quite seemed the sexually potent animal he should have been. His movements around the stage were sometimes those of a normal human being, sometimes those of an ape, and sometimes those of a wind-up toy on the blink. Mrs. Kowalski, Blanche's sister...