Word: listen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Listen to some of the more in spired lines. Pinky to Tom: "You young people don't care what clothes you wear just so long as they're tight--you all look like sexy rejects from a poor farm," (absolutely the best line). Teena to Tom: "My psychoanalyst happens to be a great man and I won't have you hinting that your psychoanalyst is better than mine!" Mrs. Bigelow to Razz (watch the clever undercutting in this one): "I've never known a Negro before--socially that is--of course I'm not at all prejudiced...
Actually this level of inspiration can be amusing if built into a well-structured play and excellently acted and directed, but the second half to Etc. is so bad that two out of four chief characters on stage do nothing but listen and wander from chair to chair while the other two inarticulately convince themselves that they are finally seeing the truth about their own hearts just the way Tennessee Williams said they would. The director, Morton da Costs (famous for No Time for Sergeants, Auntie Mame, Music Man and such stuff), has done a barely competent job of maneuvering...
Shark Food. Consequently, many Bahreinis listen approvingly to broadcasts from Cairo and Baghdad denouncing Sheik Isa as a feudalist and a British stooge. Their chief source of resentment is the Sheik's 800-man British-officered police force. When oil workers went on strike last March, the Sheik's tough cops cracked down hard, killing twelve and wounding 50, repressed Nasser-inspired student riots last month with equal severity. Opponents of Sheik Isa often end up in a mystery-shrouded prison on desolate Jidah Island. Over Baghdad radio last week, a political prisoner who had recently escaped from...
...Communists in a manpower war. The way to win is to hit hard and use all our air force and naval aviation powers." Above all, said Clark, the Reds must be made to feel the brunt of overwhelming force. Communists, he added, "respect force and stop, look and listen when they...
...runs better when men and women keep to their own spheres." But more important, "we who belong to the profession of housewife hold the fate of the world in our hands. It is our influence which will determine the culture of coming generations. We are the people who chiefly listen to the music, buy the books, attend the theater, prowl the art galleries, collect for the charities, brood over the schools, converse with the children. Our minds need to be rich and flexible for those duties...