Word: suth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...yassuh-massuh and lay on the Virginia ham as though the camera were 30 rows away. What's more, Scenarist Davis plays up to the white folks as often as he beats them down. The side characters are sarcastic caricatures of Aunt Jemima, Uncle Tom and any old suth'n cunnel (Sorrell Booke); the hero is a big-mouthed burlesque of Dr. Martin Luther King. Nevertheless, every third line sinks in like a needle-not so deep it draws blood but deep enough to get under a white man's skin...
Into all this, Williams has injected much enlivening comedy-now in terms of character (the bride can be wonderfully, Williamsly Suth'n), now in terms of situation, now of talk. Moreover-which is the play's new wrinkle, the key to its change of key-Williams is suggesting that, far from so many people having hideous lives and fates, most people really needn't suffer from even the milder, more widespread afflictions. He has called off the bloodhounds at last, and would simply have people try harder to cooperate and understand...