Word: speak
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Speak with remotely situated friends at the exhibit over a Picturephone that transmits both sound and visual images...
...back as memory goes, it has been recognized that there were living around Boston's bigger universities "colonies of Bohemians." These people were generally considered to speak with "intellectual"-sounding words, wear beards, and, after Harvard professor Timothy Leary's chemical discovery, swallow dangerous drugs...
...When two persons cannot deal with each other directly, they sometimes focus their attentions on a third party. Zena Walker and Donal Donnelly exhibit stage expertise as a man and wife who try to speak to each other through their hopelessly crippled child. An unlikely theme for a comedy but, in Peter Nichols' quasi-autobiographical play, it works...
...always, O'Neill's language halts short of eloquence; yet in some peculiar way his characters speak a poignant, subliminal dialogue that makes the audience hear what does not quite get said. A supple cast that obviously loves and understands the play gives it emotive depth. As Hogan, W. B. Brydon is a raffish, truculent blend of peasant guile and blather, while Mitchell Ryan's sodden, dandyish Jim Tyrone is a tarnished peacock straight from Old Broadway. Salome Jens, with hoydenish charm, discloses the vulnerable waif inside the intimidating woman. Director Theodore Mann has sensitively staged...
...that first awful morning last week, many Americans phoned relatives and friends; unable to speak the unspeakable, they just said, "Turn on the television." Thus began a four-day period in which TV and radio attempted to link a distraught country into a comprehending whole. They succeeded to a remarkable degree...