Word: shows
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LARGE, last Thursday's McGovern Commission hearings in Boston were a New Politics show. Innumerable representatives of various organizations of former McCarthy and Kennedy supporters gathered before the Democratic Party commission to propose what they felt were changes in the operation of the party and of the American electoral system...
...other hand, only a black Protestant(the phrase, dating back before the '54 desegregation decision refers to one's soul, not his race), only one of their kind could quibble with the show's numerous song and dance numbers. If this review were to mention all the good ones, it would end up becoming a Rabelaisian shopping list. Terrence Currier--who too often seemed to underplay his being the play's resident skeptic--unleashes a good, old-fashioned tenor. Ted D'Arms as Monsewer, an English anglophobe (a part almost too small for the amount of good things he puts...
...knowing that Miss Hart also doubles as the show's choreographer, I couldn't help but sympathize with her. One of my more Portnoy-esque childhood memories is of a kindergarten pageant where I, part of a chorus line, was supposed to dance the Irish jig. No matter how both my mother and the teacher pleaded, I could never manage the damn thing and botched it terribly. When this cast joins in a grand chorus line, all dancing--after just a few hesitations--pretty competently, I could really appreciate the achievement. The cast does less well with their brogues. None...
...impossible to synthesize the cumulative effect of such a play. The Hostage usually seems to proceed, like a variety show, from one comedy bit to another. Then, suddenly, it will stop. Some of the two-dimensional characters we've been laughing at fade into the background while others blossom into real three-dimensional human beings. The result are often quite moving. When Leslie (in which role Michael Sacks is again perfectly cast--in his khaki he seems out of a World War II movie, an English Van Heflin both in costume and good spirits), the British soldier stops...
...look to the inevitable day when, he feels, both the U.S. and China will play a smaller role in Southeast Asia. Born partly from that realization is a growing awareness among Asian nations of the need to look to their own resources and cultivate independence. Strongly non-Communist countries show symptoms of being able to adjust to Communism without becoming politically subverted or emotionally unstrung. Singapore, Thailand and the Philippines, for example, have extended welcome to trade, cultural and tourist delegations from the Soviet Union and other Communist lands in Europe...