Word: sonly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WHISTLE IN THE DARK is Thomas Murphy's drama of a brutish Irishman and his four sons who move in on a fifth son attempting to flee their world of tooth and claw by moving to England. The play is full of the rude poetry of the commonplace, stating truths about human nature that one would often rather forget...
Explains Mrs. Betti Green, a cochairman: "White policemen and their bullets do not know that your daughter wants a doll or your son a bicycle for Christmas. We will be trying to stress that a child's need for the love and guidance of his parents is far greater than his need for toys and trinkets on Christmas...
...last few years seems either naive or dishonest now. We want to stop the war not because it is too expensive, but because it is a bloody holding action to stall a victory by the legitimate though repressive government of the people. Tell that to a woman whose son was mangled by punji sticks or a terrorist attack...
...prejudiced or anything. I don't pretend to be a son of the American Revolution, because my father came from Italy and my mother from France, but I fought in the First World War. There's a picture of my ship on the wall. Things were different then, There are just too many people moving in here. Let me tell you something. During the last century, thousands of Chinese came to California. The Governor imposed restrictions upon their would have been simply overrun...
...Fowles had it as a child, it was the only sign he did have of his future profession. The son of a suburban cigar importer, he went to an English public school. "I enjoyed it, played cricket well and was successful." In fact, he became head boy, "a very efficient little Gestapo" who punished the other boys with a cane for their misdemeanors. After school, Fowles served in the British marines, which he hated. "I also began to hate what I was becoming in life -a British Establishment young hopeful. I decided instead to become a sort of anarchist...