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...came here looking for something." The pity is that he does not begin to make explicit what that something is. As a scenerio writer, Kazan fails to communicate the dreamlike lure America holds for the foreign-born. Facts come through with splendid candor, but the feelings lie mute in family legend...
While the tax bill will lessen such rewards in the future, it will also tend to mute the critics. Because the new law tightens up on options but reduces taxes on salaries, straight salary will also gain in importance as an executive reward. But for men in high brackets, options will remain a solid fringe...
...other times he appears merely mad. He has periods of acute disconnection in which he falls totally mute...
...ruled by what Quentin remembers, as he remembers it. Miller has put the mind's eye on the stage. In the mind, the past and the present are coetaneous. Thus the play does not flow chronologically. Quentin's thoughts dart back and forth with lightning speed. The characters, whether mute or speaking, move into and out of focus instantaneously. The effect is kaleidoscopic. (The full text, by the way, will be printed in, of all places, the February 1 issue of the Saturday Evening Post; but the work will be difficult to assimilate from the printed page alone...
...just." Zelo Shemansky counters his wife's attacks by going into fits, "twitching like a toilet chain." While balancing the Shemansky powers, crippled son Barish fiendishly maximizes tension and antagonism. Then there are the long-absent daughter, Yahina (another Ma in the making), her husband, Feivet, a deaf mute, and her son, Pildesh, who while urinating from a fourth floor window, tumbles out. The savior of this twisted family is old, orange-eyed. Vossen Gleich, with his lopsided chest ("one side sunk in, the other humped and swollen to his chin"), who ends his virginity with poor, sickly Mrs. Charpolsky...