Word: verney
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...victims Miss Laski chooses to show include Rachel Verney, a forty-year old woman, her son and daughter, isolated for five years on a farm that miraculously escaped nuclear poisoning, and a fisherman who visits periodically from another pocket of survivors. Except for the daughter (Anne Lilley Kerr) overwhelmed by sexual longing, these people greet the prospect of rescue with some ambivalence. Their misgivings are justified, it turns out, because the Americans who enter as saviors only want to head them into reservations for "contaminated persons...
...Bissinger has carefully rehearsed one of the finest casts assembed on a Harvard stage in recent years. As the fisherman who suspects the Americans' motives, Harry Cooper is vivid and strong. Anne Lilley Kerr is convincing in her desire, and Josephine Simon succeeds in transforming Rachel Verney's unique postwar experience into one of dramatic pertinence. Otto Holmberg turns the not-too-intriguing son into a sympathetic figure...
...nether-world such as her postwar England; but a good writer uses it to comment on reality rather than to indulge a hypothetical vision. Miss Laski's commentary lacks political validity: in presenting her image of nuclear destruction, she strains toward praise of an isolationist status quo. Thus Rachel Verney informs her Amercan rescuer, "for five years I've been free from guilt. I've lived in peace with my family." War is shown to be the disrupter of a contented world, rather than the outgrowth of a disparite and unjust...
Recent gifts to the Program include an unrestricted grant of $100,000 from the Richard King Mellon Foundation of Pittsburg, $100,000 for teaching and research from Mrs. Gilbert Verney, Greenwich, Conn., and $240,000 for neurology work from John Factor, Beverly Hills, Calif...