Word: money
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...modest homes on a morning in mid-April of this year. It had been 14 years since I had last seen Graceville, and nostalgia was bringing me back. I parked in front of the Circle Grill, where we had managed to eat on our $2.50-a-day meal money, went inside and ordered breakfast. It was when I began talking with the proprietress that I realized something indefinable, and bad, had happened to Graceville...
...would be fair to say that nothing would have ever happened to Graceville if not for the seven summers of the Graceville Oilers. In 1952, a group of men in town came up with the money to field a team in the Class D Alabama-Florida League. They made a deal with a Ford dealer (free advertising for station wagons) to solve the transportation problem, wangled hand-me-down uniforms from the Cincinnati Reds, carved a baseball diamond out of the high school stadium, and spread the word in the town's weekly newspaper. The other league members like Dothan...
...scene of this one-acter shows this lack of expertise at its fullest. Paul, the son, and three of his black friends are robbing Ed, the father, at his safe. While Paul has explained in the scene before that his father will surely open his safe and count his money at three in the morning, it's hard to believe that even super-capitalist Ed would actually get out of bed to do this. During the robbery attempt, as one of the boys tries to smash Ed on the back of the head with a bottle, the victim pulls...
...Hoye tops it off with one of the great near sneak plays of our time. The cop tells the father that Paul was one of the assailants, but pop is indignant, defending his son to the death. My son was chasing after them, he says, trying to protect my money. No, the cop says, your son is a crook. Pop immediately changes his mind and turns on his son and tries to kill him. In other words, Pop goes from love to hate in thirty seconds. Almost, but not quite, Mr. Hoye. In five minutes you might have done...
...department said it agreed to pay the theatre company for the cancelled performances and to refund the money of students who bought tickets in advance. The department added that it will try to arrange a return engagement for Julian Beck's group at a theatre in Boston...