Word: moralisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...commanding, resonant narration almost succeeds in keeping the explosive elements of the play under control. At the start of each act, Epstein literally bounds on stage, organizing and directing the action with the sheer energy and power of his voice. Epstein's careful pacing helps drive home the moral of the play but his tone does not moderate sufficiently when he steps inside the action and plays an old man in a train station...
...Cambridge, a city where obscenity laws are vague but strong religious and moral feelings persist, there was bound to be a stir over the live, staged nudity. But for those who went as well as those who didn't, the show's nudity and all it provoked was the best thing, if not the only thing, the show had going for it. Unfortunately, Tynan and his company blew the chance to capitalize on the show's greatest asset. They finish the disrobing number three minutes after the curtain rises, lining the cast up in full nudity under cool white lights...
...state dinners; Billy drank it from the bottle at the Inauguration. In a very convenient way he represents everything his brother could not be as a candidate or as president but which is popular anyway. In terms of image, the whole thing is a bit too neat--the moral issues on which the President is both so popular and so vulnerable are balanced off too perfectly by Billy's redneck routine...
...committee does not object to Kissinger's credentials but rather to the "moral results of Kissinger's policy," McCorkle added...
Russell, however, said at the Monday night meeting that "we have to take into consideration the moral factor of the children and the Catholic schools in the area...