Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wonder if the folks in Harlem can refrain from looting, from throwing bricks, Molotov cocktails, empty pop bottles and rocks long enough to denounce Barry Goldwater again because of his stand on "extremism" and civil rights...
...bags. Buzzing around them are children who frolic unsupervised far into the night, wearing latchkeys on strings around their necks because there is nobody at home to care for them. Half of Harlem's children under 18 live with only one parent or none, and it is small wonder that the juvenile delinquency rate is more than double New York's or that the venereal disease rate among Harlem's youth is six times higher than in the rest of the city. Harlem is a mother lode of such statistics, but no footnoted chart on child neglect...
...figure in professional and bush theater for more than 60 years. His Much Ado is literal, straightforward, underdirected and onedimensional, which will indicate to any former Payne student that the master has not lost his grip. Some of the actors in Much Ado strike poses like various Barrymores. Small wonder, B. Iden Payne directed Ethel in Déclassé and John in Justice...
...cars of a specialized model, can be made more economically using fiber glass instead of steel. Fiber glass makers hope eventually to replace steel or nylon cord in tires, and thereby take over a $400 million-a-year business. There are signs that fiber glass may even become a wonder worker: a desalinization technique is being tested in which sea water is run through an inexpensive membranous fiber glass pipe, which allows the fresh water to pass through but retains the salt...
Admittedly, in a play where the characters are trying on masks the audience should be allowed to wonder for a while what they are really like. But eventually their personalities should emerge from beneath the pretense. The two actors in Three A.M. could not do that, however, for they never seem to have decided what their characters' personalities were. Certainly Foley does not give the much help. The play moves from topic to topic, from joke to joke. No pattern really emerges. The only development necessary is that the girl get gradually drunk enough to pass out immediately after announcing...