Word: scotts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Oscar Hubbard (E. G. Marshall) is a mean, vindictive half-man who vents his malice by slapping his genteel, alcoholic wife Birdie (Margaret Leighton). Oscar's brother Ben (George C. Scott) is shrewder, abler, more sardonic. Their sister Regina (Anne Bancroft) is ambitious for wealth, power and position. The trio's chance for the big money rests on joining a foxy Chicago manufacturer (William Prince) and sharing the costs of putting up a cotton mill. The key figure in the deal is Regina's husband Horace (Richard A. Dysart), ill in a Baltimore hospital. She orders...
...present production is a model of casting. Anne Bancroft's congealed contempt, George Scott's rasping arrogance, Margaret Leighton's wounded bird cries-all these file on the nerves as Director Mike Nichols expertly dovetails scenes of explosive malignance. For the first time, the Beaumont Theater's open stage does not seem to be sprawling off into infinity, as Howard Bay's set and lighting define the Hubbard living room like the white, spare square of a prize ring...
...went--the play getting sloppier, the time getting shorter for the Crimson to escape embarrassing defeat. Finally, with just over six minutes to go, Scott Robertson's shot was cleared by the Green, but right into the waiting foot of Jaime Vargas...
Samuel T. Scott, one of the sponsors of the Vote on Vietnam petition said yesterday that he did not know what Vote on Vietnam's next move would be. He added that they planned to make their own check of the petition's signatures before deciding whether to challenge the Election Commission's count...
Some moderates fear nonetheless that they will be thwarted by what many see as a general drift toward the right in the U.S. One of them recalls the meeting between a group of moderates, including Javits, Pennsylvania's Senator Hugh Scott and Henry Cabot Lodge, at a Manhattan restaurant after the 1964 debacle; all agreed that the Republican right wing was washed up. "They were wrong," he said. "Goldwater missed his timing by four years. Why do you imagine Reagan has come on as fast as he has?" His analysis could be correct. But it may also turn...