Word: pregnantly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There are a few remnants in this play-let's just call it Etc. of the old Inge-art. After all when pretty Tom (aspiring actor) and pregnant Teena (aspiring wife) step on stage in their underwear and start singing a cigarette add ("The Breeze at night is just as good as the Breeze in the morning") one certainly gets a fine sense of trivia. Shortly we discover (gasp of Recognition) that the play is really about the younger generation and growing up and accepting responsibility. Tom and Teena, we find, live unmarriedly in midtown Manhattan in a messy apartment...
...pattern? When you have a lot of life talk among bohemian young folk. Negroes, homosexuals, protestant white suburban mothers, single pregnant girls, middle-aged detractors of youthful pretension and youthful detractors of middle-aged complacency (and all these people wrapped up in six little characters none of which is a consistent or perceptive portrait of any type) you can make cracks not only about life, birth, death, sex, politics, and religion (which is all Dylan Thomas thought a writer could handle) but also about existentialism, television, the theater, psychoanalysis, social mores of two or three generations, race relations, and last...
...School for Pregnant Girls gives them consultation by nurses, psychologists and doctors, and teaches them how to care for themselves and a baby while keeping up on academic subjects. After a six-week absence, they return to regular classes, but not in their original schools. Of 141 girls enrolled last year, 117 continued their studies. Said one: "I've learned that what I've done is not a crime, but a mixture of shame, love and happiness...
...portrayed as a happy occurrence, except for one rare sculpture of a dejected girl at term. Dr. Weisman speculates that "she's only eleven or twelve. I think it is her first baby and she's worried about it." A series of works showing midline incisions in pregnant women suggests that caesarean sections may have been common...
...Your cover picture of McGeorge Bundy in front of the Great Seal of the U.S. [June 25] is, as is your custom, pregnant with significance. Mr. Bundy seems to be trying to bend his head so that it covers up the warlike spears in the eagle's left claw and only allows the olive branch of peace to show. But his deception is not successful; the arrowheads show through. Perhaps we would be better off if Mr. Bundy either let us see the entire situation or got out of the picture altogether...