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...wrote his Little Mary Sunshine, a delightful satire of those song and dance shows to which director Greg Delawie '80 and the South House Drama Society have done justice. The play takes place on a summer day in Colorado in 1910. The main plot is simple: a group of forest rangers, who resemble Dudley Do-Rights more than Ranger Ricks, arrive at Little Mary Sunshine's vacation home in search of the wild Indian Yellow Feather. Of the 17 characters, 14 are romantically involved and the other three are Indians, who are not supposed to have such emotions...
...ominous chords in the background. In the foreground our poor heroine pitiously bemoans as the barker comes to foreclose her mortgage and an Indian threatens her if she refuses to yield to his demands. Suddenly, clad like the true-blue forest ranger he is, our hero appears to save her. Sound like a scene from a silent movie anyone ever associated with it would rather forget? No, it's the storyline for Little Mary Sunshine, the operetta playing at South House this weekend...
...images of dreams and the images of memory have a sound...Music is like a forest, it has boundaries, but we do not know them...
...perhaps there is room for books about the war that are completely personal, that concentrate on the individual's reactions. One of the most horrifying aspects of the Vietnam war was its denial of humanity: death came from the sky, unpredictably and indiscriminately, or in the forest, at night and without warning. The enemy never took human form. American soldiers generally were ignorant of the historical roots of both the war they were fighting and the society they were invading. And on this side of the ocean, it took almost a decade of American involvement in Vietnam for the public...
...Harvard M.B.A. (class of '63) also helped land him a job with Boise Cascade, the Idaho-headquartered forest-products company, which was growing rapidly. After four years, Agee was company treasurer; two years later, he was vice president and chief financial officer and pulled down the corporation's third biggest paycheck. Nothing was left but to take over the top job, but it was clearly predestined for John Fery, then executive vice president...