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...other defendant, Father Neil McLaughlin, was absent due to the death of his father. He will be arraigned next Wednesday...
...Promises, Promises ), who wrote pop songs that sometimes end up getting sung on Broadway instead of in night clubs. It is a problem to record theatre music successfully, because the music and lyrics are only part of what comprises the stage moment; whatever the other parts are, they are absent from a recording. Because Follies concerns past musicals, and therefore has a lot of numbers which sound like they are from a past cra, the problem is not as severe as it was with Sondheim's scores for Company or, Anyone Can Whistle, both of which were entirely modern...
...usually grows corn on a particular field for two years, then switches to soybeans for a year. Gone is the ritual slopping of hogs; Erv's animals are fed carefully calibrated mixtures of corn and protein automatically through ducts that connect his silos with the feeding troughs. Absent too are some of the more familiar animals, such as horses and chickens. They are no longer profitable. As son Dan pithily sums it up: "If it don't pay, we don't have...
...other hand, Geraldine Fitzgerald gives a far denser reality to the role of the morphine-addicted wife than Florence Eldridge did. Eldridge seemed more absent-minded and scatterbrained than deeply disturbed and confused. Fitzgerald is the shy convent girl, the impish coquette and the victim of the lonely despair of a thousand one-night stands spent in second-rate hotels. She blends these elements into a consummately poignant portrait of a woman for whom drugs are the only surcease from sorrow. She, rather than the father, seems to dominate the play...
...will be wary of civil disobedience. The veterans will be there. They know what Vietnam really is. For the rest, the success of the action depends on the reaction of the college students who have been the backbone of the movement for years but who were so conspicuously absent from the march last weekend. If they choose to find excuses to stay away the action will be little more than symbolic. If they come to support the veterans who have carried the brunt of the action during the last two weeks, they really can stop the war machine...