Word: octavia
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then he met Kim, and they were together for big dates and small. Could it be love? "One never knows," said Kim. But all the publicity brought out an embarrassing fact: back home, Ramfis has a wife named Octavia ("Tan Tan") and six children. Frankly surprised, Kim said she had planned to send the car back anyway. "There's not even room in my carport," said she. Zsa Zsa was gladly hanging on to both her presents. At Leavenworth, the Army announced that Ramfis, who last week had his adenoids removed, had been completing his assignments by mail...
...OCTAVIA S. SELL Danville...
...follower of our liberal tradition he is inclined to believe at the beginning of the play, that Mr. Caulfield appears in the story as Octavia Cooper, a young English girl who speaks the lines of the modern free thinker. She tells us that one must not be dominated by an idea; an idea is not good when it demands rigid compliance on the part of its followers. The liberal may think that this is a forceful statement of his position...
...Octavia tells us that wholesale devotion to any of these ideas is wrong, and in the play she attempts to dissuade the human symbols of these ideas from their proposed courses of action. What is wrong, she says, is that each of these ideas is absolute in itself. In order to exist they must do away with one of the others. The person who feels that he must assassinate the dictator is wrong, because he does not realize that an idea which depends on the extermination of another to survive is weak. What Caulfield sets up as the present American...
...remains for four well known members of the local company to hold up the major portion of the play. Jan Farrand, too often the temptress in Brattle works, handles the role of Octavia with a naive idealism which is believable despite its inherent weakness. Cavada Humphrey and Earl Montgomery represent the hypocrisy of our American democracy carefully and accurately, and Michael Wager returns to Cambridge in a difficult role which he carries off with the skill and understanding of a seasoned actor...