Word: references
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...melodrama in the play seems less high-flown when you have the melodrama of the author's own life and background to refer to. When you know that Hellman had an elegant aunt who was actually a morphine addict and the lover of her black chauffeur, who so resented the large loans she had made to her husband--the one who was having an affair with a Cajun girl--that she would never communicate with him except through the medium of her son Honey (a slightly off-beat character himself, who tried to rape Hellman when she was fourteen...
...respect, Kahn has made a fascinating departure from Wilder's script. I refer to the matter of sound effects, where the director has out-Wildered Wilder--and I bet the playwright would applaud. While there are many things that Wilder does not want us to see, he does want us to hear them. Some of these are distant--like a whistling train, a factory work-whistle, and chirping crickets on a moonlit night. Others, however, are on-stage things that are wholly imaginary--like the milkman's horse and his clanking bottles, and Mr. Webb's lawnmower...
Beyond that, while respecting the Postal Service's independence, Congress must oversee its functions much more closely. In washing its hands of postal matters in 1971, Congress abdicated a responsibility for postal affairs that was set out for it in the Constitution. The lawmakers might well refer to the words of George Washington, who spoke of the Post Office as the indispensable chain binding Americans together...
Modern Greeks still like to refer to their country as the cradle of democracy, but in fact Greek politics has rarely reflected Attica's ancient heritage. Scarcely had Greece won its independence from the Turks in the 1820s when the infant republic ended in a presidential assassination. The great powers protecting the new nation promptly imposed an absolutist King from Bavaria. Ever since, Greece's political history has seesawed between short periods of volatile republicanism and longer ones of oppressive authoritarianism...
...both government and party and the most durable Communist leader except for Albania's Enver Hoxha (32 years in power to Kim's 30) and Yugoslavia's Tito (32 years). Pictures of the grinning, moonfaced leader are everywhere. Children reverently call him "our father," party officials refer to him as "the sun of our nation" and brides and grooms vow loyalty to him at wedding ceremonies. In Pyongyang, the 95 rooms and 2½ miles of exhibits at the Museum of the Korean Revolution glorify every aspect of Kim's life. All North Koreans are required...