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People in and around the theatre tend to call plays like this one "interesting." After I read it several months ago. I myself tended to refer to it as "interesting" to my friends and ex-wives. Indeed I found it not only interesting but playable. I thought this work, Saunders first, might even be exciting in the theatre. But-dear friends and ex-wives-you never know until the product is as they say. on the counter, and I have now discovered I was wrong. Director David Boorstin does every thing he can for Saunders play and yet the play...
...news comment ??? I've ??? believes that he origin??? the use of the term the quality of life in its present ??? in 1956. He used it then to refer to the Adla Stevenson campaign which challenged the New Deal ??? on "the quantity of life." Typified by Franklin D. Roosevelfs promises of material wel??. The change in rhetoric, from quantity to quality, called for more than just updating New Deal policies, it called for a monumental change in American goals...
...name of G.B.S., when are you going to stop treating vegetarians as if they were a fourth sex? You refer to Brigid Brophy [Feb. 2] as "vegetarian"-yet you never refer to Graham Greene or John Updike as "flesh eaters...
...Though local publications always refer to it as 'the Anglo-American bombing,' there really seems to be very little resentment against either nation. 'No, there's no hatred. We just try to forget about that whole bombing, and when you do that, you forget about who did it,' said a retired engineer. But a local journalist commented: 'We can understand the British more than the Americans because we bombed their cities...
...show runs for half an hour three nights a week, soap-opera style, but its black producers call it "soul drama." The main distinctions are a disdain for euphemism and a bitter black perspective. Characters refer to each other as "black bastards" and "niggers," "sons of bitches" and "mothers." White employers are parodied behind their backs, and there is recurrent talk of revolution. Rails one black domestic: "Wait till the slave maids and housekeepers take to the streets-and them bitches have to do their own dishes...