Word: townsmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Visit tells of the return of an old and rich woman to the impoverished German town where she was born. The townsmen have known great poverty all their lives, and they hope that her lover of 50 years ago--Alfred Ill, played by Christopher Medearis--can persuade the old lady to give them some money. The old lady agrees to help--she will contribute the phenomenal sum of "one billion"--on one condition. It seems her former boyfriend had made her pregnant, and then denied before a court of law that he was responsible. As a result she was forced...
...first the townsmen spurn the offer and stand behind their popular fellow-townsman, Ill. By the end of play they will accept it. Ill himself is terrified at the beginning that he will eventually be killed for the money. He forgets his fear, however, and calmly awaits the death he is cynically certain will come...
Andreas Teuber, rapidly becoming one of the grand old men of Harvard undergraduate theatre, has turned in another superb performance as the town's old schoolmaster. Teuber plays a crucial part, for the old schoolmaster is the only one of the townsmen other than Alfred Ill himself who realizes the power of the temptation they face. Seduced by the money, he is conscious of what is happening to the townspeople...
...president of SNCC, was addressing the meeting of 600 youths and 500 adults when the police surrounded the building. Worth Long, Dallas County coordinating secretary of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating, estimated in a telephone interview that in addition to the 50 state troopers, about 35 to 40 deputized townsmen and 15 local Selma police officers were outside the church...
...course, was a lie; but the leniency of its terms was surprising and perhaps indicative of important changes. While the jury had found it necessary to save face for the Sheriff, it had also given him a warning that he could not expect the total support of his townsmen in future acts of violence...