Word: middleton
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Double Deaths. After arresting the Green Berets, the Army, both in Washington and Viet Nam, was being closemouthed. Attorneys for the defense, most notably George Winfred Gregory, 31, from Cheraw, S.C., were speaking loud and clear. Gregory, a boyhood friend of Major Thomas Middleton, one of the accused, flew to Saigon last week to handle the case. Authorities in Washington had not been helpful, groused Gregory. "All they were giving me," he said, "was passport instructions." Gregory claims to have it on good authority that last year some 160 double agents were executed, or ordered executed, by Americans. Because...
...addition to Rheault of New Canaan, Conn., the others were Major Thomas C. Middleton Jr. of Jefferson, S.C., Major David E. Crew of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Captain Leland J. Brumley of Duncan, Okla., Captain Robert F. Marasco of Bloomfield, N.J., Captain Budge E. Williams of Athens, Ga., Chief Warrant Officer Edward M. Boyle of New York and Sergeant Alvin L. Smith Jr. of Naples...
...Women Beware Women--a fluid and incisive production of Thomas Middleton's play about the destruction of three innocent youths. At the LOEB DRAMA CENTER...
LAURENCE SENELICK'S production of Women Beware Women is as fluid and incisive as the history of his work suggests it would be. One regrets only that the constraints of mortality made it impossible for Mr. Senelick to discuss his reading of the text with Thomas Middleton. For Mr. Middleton might thereby have been persuaded to eliminate or at least refine those premature bursts of anguish which mar the first act. Alternatively, Mr. Senelick might have been persuaded to abandon his brilliant championship of textually uneven plays on the grounds that world literature ought not be edited by graduate students...
...problem with Women Beware Women, I take it, is Middleton's impatience with the development of the characters. To reveal the putrescence of his Jacobean world he has written a play about the destruction of three innocent if malleable youths: but instead of waiting for the three to be perverted by the Duke and his court, from the outset and in a heavy-handed way he anticipates their final downfall. Everything is hung with doom so that we can neither laugh at their innocence, which is moribund, nor being newcomers to the play ourselves, comprehend their suffering...