Word: silliest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...adopted. But chances are that society will heed only the movement's legitimate demands. All the rest-motivated by what Helen Lawrenson calls the "splenetic frenzy of hatred for men" voiced by "these sick, silly creatures"-is likely to remain unacceptable to all but the sickest and the silliest...
...Jeffrey Herman is kinkily personable and quite funny as a gay Jew, and Madeleine le Roux plays a tall blonde lesbian with the icy authority of a lady storm trooper. Playwright Tom Eyen is perhaps the best guide to the underlying seriousness that animates his play even at its silliest and most scandalous: "We're getting the new sexual freedom suddenly, and we don't know how to cope with it, which is a big pollution in itself...
...motives were misty, the alleged mutineers had much in common besides their home state. Both had servicemen fathers. Each of their mothers was divorced and had remarried another serviceman. McKay's mother, Mrs. Franklin Cave, refused to believe the story of the mutiny, saying: "That's the silliest thing I ever heard...