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...Pity She's a Whore has great possibilities. Intriguing, suggestive opportunities for passion and subtlety are richly woven into every act. Unfortunately, the HDC makes the least of nearly every opportunity; their production of Tis Pity drops Harvard theatre to a low level--an overacted, externally acted, embarassing, awkward level...
Ford's impressive play is the story of an unhappy incestuous affair between a brother and sister. Three sub-plots are woven in to introduce, other suitors for her hand, their vengeful opponents, and a comic lout, who is murdered by mistake. Pregnant by her brother, the girl's affair is discovered, which leads to a climax of deaths. Read the play some...
...resignation satisfied only two-thirds of the A.F.L.-C.I.O. clean up or get out orders. The house was still not clean: Klenert, in resigning, had woven an agreement for $104,000 in severance pay as a quid pro quo for leaving quickly. But at week's end that too was settled. The union's executive board voted to give Klenert the skid without a quid...
...next day he tries to sell the saddle cinches his wife has woven; the patron will not buy. He tries to sell his turkey; the patron throws the bird out the door. Desperate, man and wife sit down by the roadside, and he tells her he must go away. Somewhere there must be work to do-or things to steal. In silence she suckles the child. His face softens. The spring of life is flowing still...
...such changes, which may be woven into the basic fabric of U.S. political life, the 85th Congress, First Session, may be remembered longer than for its Pushmi-Pullyu legislative record...