Word: lumbered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brecht slaps us in the face with these non-motivated actions in the first scene of the play. In the Chicago library where he works, George Garga (Michael Moriarty) - an honest, hard-working, family supporting, country boy-is offered fifty dollars for his opinion on a book. An Oriental lumber dealer named Scblink (Nicholas Kepros) has made the offer. Once Garga has been tantalized. Schliak follows up the offer by signing over his house, his business, and his money to the younger man in the hope that Garga will be ruined by power which he cannot control. Why does Schlink...
...looking like Ezra Pound who was born not far from here in Hailey, Idaho. His name was Seth Morrison, born in Salt Lake in 1895, educated at Andover and Yale before going to the war in 1917 after which he returned to the West to be with his lumber trade and sawmills and remembrances of Latin Poetry and New Haven and Since his Home burned down in town he lived flippantly in a Flop House down the street with his Yale education and his small senilities while the people in the Utah Cafe had Daughters with piano teachers and though...