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More than 150 firms applied for the store space on the corner of Plympton and Mt Auburn Sts., said landlord Genevieve McMillan...
...George Sibbald's play Brothers, the McMillan family artery has been badly ruptured, and the threat of an irreparable clot is imminent. Beset by internal divisiveness, the McMillans quarrel and argue incessantly; the entire second act is an unbroken family battle. Superficially, Brothers seems little more than a soap-opera amalgamation of labor unrest, family feuds, and terminal illness, but fine writing and acting elevate it beyond the level of daytime serial...
...prospects are Brother Earl (Gary Kian), an over-aged, childlike buffoon; brother James (Pat MacNamara), a reformed alcoholic and aspiring academic; and Harry (Frank Converse), the only realistic possibility, a Beacon Hill lawyer married into wealth and long ago estranged from the family. Compounding the tension is the elder McMillan (Carroll O'Connor), an aging Irish head-of-the-local who believes firmly in organized labor, romanticizes the good old days of socialism and, despite his elder sons' urging, is determined to win the upcoming union elections for the 26th consecutive year...
Though parts of the play get bogged down, most of the dialogue is incisive and clever. The combination of snappy one-line's from Earl about sex interspersed with old man McMillan's wisdom and expostulations contribute to the crafty exposition and ambiguity that Sibbard weaves throughout the drama. When Jim accuses James and Harry of becoming too uppity, we don't know whether to resent him for destroying his family with pedagogical union philosophy or pity him for living in a world that no longer exists. And, although Earl comes across as little more than an overgrown child...
...Safety and Health Administration, Thome Auchter served as spokesman for a construction company owned by his family that had been cited 48 times by OSHA for safety violations. Two lobbies that have fought hard against meat inspections now have former executives high in the Agriculture Department: Assistant Secretary C.W. McMillan of the National Cattlemen's Association and Deputy Secretary Richard Lyng of the American Meat Institute...