Word: moralizers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...least at the Charles Playhouse they do. Director Michael Murray has taken this classic comedy with a moral bite and played it for broad laughter. Which it gets and deserves. But Murray and his actors (and for that matter, his designer, William Roberts) sometimes push too hard; the humor becomes heavy, and the moral sharpness disappears...
Keating's self-control is crucial to that part of the moral incisiveness of Love For Love which does come through. As the play's one, unfeigned true lover (excepting his love, Angelica, played by Lucy Martin, unfortunately the most poorly drawn of Congreve's characters) Valentine, though a rake in the past, is now the man free of the life of "continued affectation" which surrounds him. In the last scene, his sincerity and sobriety provide the one dramatic moment of the Charles production which is not just funny. Then everybody starts the frug. Like the show itself, the dance...
Religious controversies inflame emotions, and a vote against prayer for even the best constitutional and moral reasons still leaves a senator open to a demagogic attack in his next campaign. Mail ran heavily in favor of the amendment, and even though most religious groups denounced the Dirksen proposal, one Billy Graham is worth a dozen church organizations in political potency...
...free Asians should be able to act together to speed up their own development, aided by U.S. money, technical assistance and encouragement. The U.S. hopes that they will also create the resources necessary to cope with insurgency from within largely on their own-and some day even swing enough moral and military force to discourage Peking's more violent designs. What is growing up in Asia with U.S. help is the beginning of a Pacific Community, much as the free world is already linked in the Atlantic Community. Once the war in Viet Nam is ended, the U.S. sees...
...analysis with a description of the significance of the Eucharist. At a Bar in Charlotte Amalie could easily have been just another set piece about a raffish gin mill in which just about every type turns up but the anonymous and unseen narrator. Actually, it is a tense little moral essay on true and false innocence, demonstrated in terms of a hat with dancing birds on it. The hat has been made by a homosexual for a fancy-dress party, and now a child wants the campy millinery...