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Unfortunately The School For Scandal is, structurally speaking, one of the most complex of Sheridan's plays. There is a constant interweaving of characters, and even in its original staging the plot would be sufficiently hard to follow. With all the stylistic frills that the Brattle has appended for its own mystical purposes, it becomes practically impossible to unravel the play's intrigues...
NATO's complex cumbersomeness is chiefly on the political and economic side. On the military side, General Dwight Eisenhower's SHAPE command has settled into a tight, efficient routine. At Lisbon, NATO's chiefs (numbering about 30 ministers) hoped to fashion a close-knit governing board of twelve full-time members with enough power and privacy to make big political and economic decisions, the way Eisenhower's SHAPE can make military ones...
Upstairs, Resident Dr. Paul Crowley began working up her case in earnest. "Looks like catatonic schiz to me," he said. "But until she comes to and we have a psychiatrist in-who knows? It could be a guilt-complex hysteria." He fed the girl emetic soap water, which she promptly vomited up. The second time, she came to, pleading, "Not again. Please, not again." Dr. Crowley entered her name on the roster of patients to be seen by a psychiatrist on Monday...
...melange of all the worst war movies you have ever seen, The Long Watch has but one raison d'etre: the heartfelt theory of the authors that long-range rescue planes in time of war are a good thing. The reminder of the play is tied around the complex conjugal relations of half a dozen or so WAVES, who manage to turn their air-sea rescue base into a complete shambles in less than three hours on stage...
Under the cloak of this artificial inferiority-complex, "Bundyism" is working to press all those who write or teach or research into its own image, and crusading against the few who, like William F. Buckley, Jr. of Yale fame, stand firm against it. Bundyism has been so successful that it has eclipsed even McCarthyism in repression of struggling young writers, instructors, and scientists...