Word: sperduto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from the title itself, then from the basis of the doctor's optimism--the liberal press and the "middle-class majority." Hovstad as the curly-haired 20th century editor is at his best when his true yellow colors are flying; his bourgeois publisher, superbly acted by Al Sperduto, epitomizes the egoistic middle-class man of moderation. The result of the audience's foreknowledge of failure is a tremendous irony that fills the play and nearly offsets its didacticism...