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...Raisin in the Sun (by Lorraine Hansberry) is the first play by a Negro woman playwright ever to reach Broadway. It is also the first Broadway play in decades directed by a Negro (Lloyd Richards), and all but one member of its cast are Negroes. All this would be the small talk of theatrical statistics if Raisin in the Sun were not a work of genuine dramatic merit. Playwright Hansberry, 28, has brought to her well-crafted play the gifts of intelligence, honesty and humor, a saving absence of racial partisanship, and a moving ability to use the language...
...Raisin belongs to the long and simple annals of the poor. Three generations of the Younger family are packed in a sunless Chicago South Side tenement flat. There is white-haired, wide-girthed Mother Younger (Claudia McNeil), a matriarchal Rock of Gibraltar; her son Walter Lee (Sidney Poitier), 35, who finds his chauffeur's uniform a strait jacket; his younger sister Beneatha (Diana Sands), a race-conscious progressive who wants to be a doctor; Walter's wife Ruth (Ruby Dee), who yearns for a grassy reprieve from the soot-and-asphalt jungle; and the Youngers' small...
...Raisin might be somber, or merely sentimental, if its milieu were not so sharply observed, its speech so flavorful, and its infectious sense of fun so caustic. Much of the laughter wells up around Beneatha, a girl of earnest intellectual fads. When a Nigerian boy friend introduces her to a bit of African lore, she promptly decks herself out as "the queen of the Nile," and whirls across the room to click off a jazz program ("Enough of this assimilationist junk...
...recession is an expensive luxury," said Central Intelligence Agency Director Allen Dulles to 700 U.S. Chamber of Commerce delegates after a satisfying lunch of ham with raisin sauce and apple pie with cheese in Washington's flossy Mayflower Hotel. "Soviet propagandists have had a field day in recent months pounding away at American free enterprise." And just in case some complacent citizens, including a few drowsy ones in his audience, did not know that the Soviet economy is coming up fast to make it a real race, Dulles ticked off some dry facts...
...suppressed freedom of the press, packed the courts to rubber-stamp his decisions, and altered the election code to keep opposition parties from forming coalition slates. Yet the windup rallies in Istanbul were festive rather than bitter, and wonderfully reminiscent of U.S. campaign rallies except that vendors hawked raisin cakes instead of hot dogs, and the music was supplied by singsong flutes instead of brass bands...