Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about draft dodging or antiwar demonstrations in the mountains. Honor, manhood and pride mean a lot to the hill people. They are living in the coves and on the mountaintops because they like it there. They ain't beholden to nobody. Should we drag them down to our level...
...figure was forty per cent. But the statistics are far from encouraging, for in absolute figures the number of illiterates increases by 25 to 30 million every year. There are now about 800 million who do not read or write at even the most elementary level...
...Tutors Committee, which has 300 members, now receives more requests for tutors than it can handle. "The volunteer-pool would continue this service on a wider level, while freeing PBH to involve volunteers in programs with more of a chance for permanent institutional changes," Profit said...
...plot circles about Anastasia Vote (Nora Paley), sad-eyed lady of the psychic lowlands, flipped down and out on methedrine. In more level moments she makes love to at least four men (Jim Flinsch, Eric Isen, Robert Chapman, Jim Calvert). Anxiously to the rescue come two impotent saviors, her brother Michael Twelvetrees (Dan Deitch) and former boyfriend Steven Blaine (Dan Chumley). Twelvetrees has his own problem; he surreptitiously takes photographs of himself making love to girlfriend Samantha Quentin (Maeve Kinkead). And Blaine is afraid to approach Anastasia. He keeps watch from a phone booth near her apartment, smoking cigarettes...
...good. But even if the author is taken with the work of his hands, the audience isn't, not at least in the Quincy House production of The Cavern. The show chugs along at a level of basic competence, but you wait in vain for the spark that would make Anouilh's premise work...