Word: misbegottens
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...Neill's last plays, A Moon for the Misbegotten, is laid in just such a haunted house of self. It has been revived at Off-Broadway's Circle in the Square Theater in a production of attentive care. The actors' skill, however, cannot fully disguise the weaknesses of a play that contains more reverie than conflict, more dreams than drama. It is an attenuated lament for the loveless, a gentle moonlit ode to the undernourished heart. Each of the three leading characters is an emotional cripple. Phil Hogan is "misbegotten" because his spirit is as mean...
Died. Carson McCullers, 50, vibrant voice of love and loneliness in the Southern novel; of a stroke, following 45 days in a coma; in Nyack, N.Y. In five gothic novels, she probed soul-deep into a misbegotten Dixie brood and found both depravity and innocence. Her characters ranged from Frankie Addams, tremulous near womanhood in The Member of the Wedding, to brutish Amelia Evans in The Ballad of the Sad Café. After reaching overnight success in 1940 with her first novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, she was beset by gradual paralysis, but kept writing-until...
...soldiers wolfing food in the drenching rain, a Viet Cong guerrilla surrendering. War is the American foot soldier splurging his pay on Saigon girls, the monotony of patrols, death in a field. But as coldly treated by France's official TV network, the war has been only a misbegotten adventure carried out by a nation too naive to learn from the superior experience of a wiser country...
...Wrong Number!" The marriage of convenience between movies and television can a'so unleash such misbegotten progeny as a sex farce with two heads. Here, one head belongs to Bob Hope, the other to Phyllis Diller, and Wrong Number demonstrates what a pair of fine stand-up comedians have to do to stretch out an idea that might comfortab'y fill four minutes of prime time. The body hustled hither and yon to take up the slack belongs to Elke Sommer, cast as a European sex queen who suffers an attack of artistic integrity midway through her umpteenth...
...rule. The initial period of white panic and black exultation is past -a period that saw wholesale departures of colonial civil servants who took their "lumpers" (severance pay) when their jobs were "Africanized," or the thousands of European farmers who pulled up stakes and fled, out of some misbegotten sense of guilt and impending bloodshed...