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That is the gist of a warmly appealing play by David Wiltse. His hero, Suggs (William Atherton), is a Kansan Candide. One of his ideas of what makes New York City the best of all possible worlds is sex. A series of girls (all played by Lee Lawson) parades through his bachelor flat, but a sense of repetitious futility makes him marry a girl (also Lawson) for whom he has no sexual appetite...
...minutes later, Phil Lawson, the man who had announced Jackson's death, returned to the floor with a resolution that would wrench the assembly...
After explaining the circumstances of the death, which he called "murder," Lawson proclaimed, "George Jackson was killed because he was black. He lives because he was a revolutionary." He then asked "Clergy and Laymen Concerned" to endorse his resolution...
...Quaker named Ross Flanagan announced that he, as a non-violent person, could not support the statement. His was a difficult announcement to make, and his voice shook. These reservations provoked countering statements of support for the resolution with varying degrees of outrage and bitterness. The chairman asked Phil Lawson to go with several others to prepare a resolution which might be generally acceptable, and to then deliver it to the assembly. In the confusion in the back of the room, Phil, seething, told supporters, "I don't intend to bring it back to have it ratified." Chris, a young...
...fourth quarter coach Bruce Munro put in four substitutes without breaking the team's momentum. John Waciuma and Ric LaCivita maintained control at midfield, and fullback Lawson Wulsin set up the best goal of the game with a long sideline pass to Adedeji on left wing. Adedeji dropped the ball into the center, and Papagianis came in from right wing to score with a head shot...