Word: terrorized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heady days, Chatham's Eddy predicted a student revolution "which could sweep all higher education." But as Eddy recently reported with chagrin, "it just hasn't happened that way." Eddy cites "youth's decreasing identification with the Kennedy Administration," tracing it to "the shock and the terror" that hit collegians during last fall's Cuban crisis. Says he: "We had forgotten how good the world had been to them...
...doesn't help her play any by making her characters so one-dimensional. Each has one characterizing action--which he repeats to distraction. Tolen, every time he sees a girl passing on the street, jumps out the window to pursue her. Colin, when confronted with anything female, cringes in terror. And Tom talks and acts crazily, but at least he finds more than one way to be mad. There's only one way a man can jump out a window, and the act tends to pall about the third time...
These two transitions, around which the play revolves--through no fault of the actors--are not uniformly smooth. The weakest scene in the play involves the transition from fear to calmness in Ill. The script has actor Medearis writhing on the ground in terror at one moment and existentially accepting his fate minutes later. Medearis is asked to change moods with impossible speed, and the scene is unconvincing...
...play's best moments were its amusing ones, but Pinter's complex creation and the workshop's production did produce a dramatic close despite its unevenness. The audience shares Rose's shock and terror when she cries...
...tragedy took place in the subtropical greenery of Southeast Asia, but it conveyed some of the pity and terror of the ancient Greek stage. A national hero, who had fought long and courageously against great odds, had finally been brought down by fate-fate in this case being a combination of his avowed enemies, his former friends and, undoubtedly, his own flawed nature. When he took office nine years ago, Ngo Dinh Diem told his people, "Follow me if I advance! Kill me if I retreat! Revenge me if I die!" In whatever manner and for whatever reason Diem died...