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...seemed appropriate to someone to select a work dating from 1955, the year the AST opened. The choice fell on Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams, who is, along with Arthur Miller, generally considered one of the two foremost native dramatists of our time...
...with the topic during the twenties and thirties through such plays as The Captive, The Pleasure Man (by Mae West--who, we tend to forget, wrote as well as acted), The Children's Hour, The Green Bay Tree and, later, Tea and Sympathy. Prior to Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Williams himself had invoked the subject tangentially in A Streetcar Named Desire, and would return to it more seriously three years later in Suddenly Last Summer...
...room, where it belongs as a major bone of contention, is a large double bed. I am reminded of the blooper committed by a TV announcer promoting the showing of the play's film version: "See Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman in a Cot on a Hot Tin Roof." No, it's got to be a double...
...first postwar advocate of nonalignment, urging a "third position" as an alternative to joining the blocs led either by the U.S. or the Soviet Union. He conducted a vociferous anti-U.S. campaign, alleging that there was a "gigantic North American plot" to seize Cuban sugar, Bolivian tin, Chilean copper and Central American bananas. To the dismay of South America's upper classes, Perón encouraged the growth of labor unions all over the continent...
...rising bills of their own. Atlanta-based Colonial Stores, for example, reports that its wage costs have risen 10% to 12% in the past year. Gasoline and electric costs have shot up as much as 50% in the past eight months; and for some food processors, the price of tin-plated steel used to make cans has leaped 30%. Los Angeles Wholesaler Randolph Price asserts: "There is not much chance for retail prices to diminish. There are too many elements that must be added to the cost of the product by the time it gets to the store...