Word: swatters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...director has cleverly devised a visual image to particularize the main action of the drama. At the beginning of the first hospital scene, the nurse slowly raises a fly-swatter, viciously slams it down on top of her desk, and then grins, as she wipes the swatter against the desk's legs. The verbal re-enactment of this violence becomes the driving force of the play. Each character fights another--and the only response is that which is generated by frustration and hatred...
...national consciousness." Hoover's constant warnings against Soviet espionage in the U.S. are right off "an old line . . . and its success year after year is a tribute to the trance into which his sermons throw Americans, not excepting Congressmen. Mr. Hoover is, after all, our official spy swatter. In these persistent reports about espionage and sabotage, is he delicately telling us that he isn't up to the job, that Red spies are running loose despite his best efforts? If in fact we are as infested with these rascals as Mr. Hoover intimates, it might occur to many...