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...halves of this perspective show in the contrast between the lives of Edward and Lavinia Chamberlayne and that of Celia Coplestone. The play both begins and ends with one of the Chamberlayne's cocktail parties; they represent the decision to struggle on with the drab existence of whiskey and potato crisps. Celia is absent from the second party; unable to accept the constraints of such a life, she has left to seek peace in her own, absolute terms...
Each character is distinct, but several of the male protagonists share characteristics and concerns, making much of the collection seem like loose variations on a theme. The young men try to farm the family land, are scab truck-drivers, sell whiskey at illegal cockflights of mine coal. Attached to the land, they feel trapped and in complete in their tedious, brutal jobs and empty relationships with family and women but a more satisfying life is out of reach. In "A Room Forever," a man who works on Ohio River tugboats begins to tire of life passed in hotel rooms...
Berlin shows how the lack of props gives the few objects O'Neill does use--a bottle of whiskey, a wedding dress--more prominence. He also clarifies the meaning of O'Neill masterly use of sounds (the first discussion of the play concerns the father's snoring). For example, the coughing of the tubercular son, the footsteps upstairs, the interfering foghorn add ominous dimensions to the play's atmosphere...
Moscow had snooped in Swedish waters before. In October 1981, a Soviet Whiskey-class submarine ran aground near a naval base at Karlskrona. Ten days later, after a humiliating interrogation of the ship's captain, the indignant Swedes hauled the sub out to sea. Last June, the Swedish navy spent 14 days in futile pursuit of a reported sub in the Gulf of Bothnia. But the latest trespass raised the greatest fears. "This is so far inside a restricted area, so close to our main naval base, that it seems more aggressive and ruthless than anything before," declared Commander...
...night on the six o'clock boat to Louisville. Laskey Bell, now a rich man, sent his son to Andover and forgot about his wife, living alone in the majestic house he had built for her out of white oak and limestone, sinking into the dyspeptic fog of good whiskey that provided him with his own private Dreamland...