Word: matthew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Matthew Stanton is an Irish immigrant to the Brooklyn of the 1890's. For three years he lives with the older, well-to-do Aggie Hogan. Believing that she has been unfaithful to him with Edward Quinn, Brooklyn's mayor, Stanton flees to England where he marries an Irish girl of good family in a civil ceremony. Matthew and Kathleen return to Brooklyn to start a new life. Matthew becomes a political power and at the beginning of the play decides to challenge Quinn for the mayoralty nomination. However, when what's left of Aggie Hogan dies, the unfinished business...
...dialogue to jump out of context and character for poetic effect. Combined with the painfully sparse movement of the first few scenes, this makes the early part of Hogan's Goat easier to listen to than to watch. By the end of Act I, however, as Quinn spits in Matthew Stanton's face, the action catches up with the language...
When the sailing ships Porpoise and Cato foundered off eastern Australia one night in August 1803, Explorer Matthew Flinders led the 94 survivors to safety on a nearby sandspit, then sailed and rowed a small cutter 729 miles to Sydney for help. While Flinders is an Australian national hero-the first man to circumnavigate the continent-the theory persisted that his navigating was off when he recorded the wreckage at latitude 22° 11' south, longitude 155° 13' east. But that spot is precisely where an Australian underwater photographer named Ben Cropp last week, 162 years later...
...Mclntire believes that Africa, with its missionary-planted roots, is particularly susceptible to the fundamentalist approach, and plans a proselytizing trip there this fall. He crows about some schismatic Nigerian parishes that have recently joined the L.C.C.C., and hopes to corral other dissidents such as Kenya's Bishop Matthew Ajouga, who walked out of the Anglican Communion. Asia is also Mclntire's happy hunting ground. He claims that a majority of Korea's Protestants, as well as many from Taiwan and the Philippines, are represented in the L.C.C.C...
...Died. Matthew Hobson Murphy Jr., 51, Alabama attorney and self-styled "Imperial Klonsel" of the Ku Klux Klan who last May defended Collie Leroy Wilkins, one of the three Klansmen charged with the murder of Civil Rights Worker Viola Gregg Liuzzo; of injuries sustained in an auto accident; near Tuscaloosa...