Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tragic, poetic play that contains an over-powering weight of emotion, language, and idea. The drama takes place in the Old Southwest--an informal trial is set up to bring truth to light in what turns out to be a sensitive, almost unearthly love of brother for sister. Their rapturous relationship was doomed; the sister has been killed by the cruder man whom she married but to whom she had never given herself. At the trial of truth, the boy, his Conquistador parents, and the husband declare themselves before a quiet, frozen chorus of townspeople, baring themselves in extraordinary speeches...
...heartbreaking thing about Virginia is that, as the South's leader, it has chosen to lead the way backward into a dark yesterday. Its acts to date have been carefully legalistic (with such grim exceptions as Mrs. Roger Boyle's charred cross). But its less sophisticated sister states, following the bare pattern of their leader, have distorted Virginia's program into outright defiance of the Supreme Court. At his homeland's present crossroads, Harry Byrd is waving the South in a wrong direction that will be remembered long after he has departed...
Girls of Summer (by N. Richard Nash) concerns five people in Manhattan who inhabit or run in and out of a bohemian garden apartment. There is a mixed-up woman of 30 (Shelley Winters), her mixed-up 18-year-old sister, a mixed-up male teacher of ballet, the sister's mixed-up young hipster admirer, and a brash, cocky intruder who drives a Jaguar, sneers at art, and gets involved with both sisters. Soon Playwright Nash, converting two pair into a full house, makes plain that the stranger is mixed...
...different authors-one whose job it was to put plenty of sex on every other page; the other a Francophile intent on cramming in as much esoteric knowledge as possible about Napoleon, Egypt, archaeology, physics, intrigue and strategy. Fortunately, both writers are combined in Humorist Ruth (My Sister Eileen) McKenney, so that sex is more often ridiculous than salacious, and the historical asides often get a witty assist over the dusty pit of pedantry...
Professor Whittlesey leaves a brother and a sister. Funeral arrangements will be announced today...