Word: mr
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...that it might be possible to negotiate with Iran because of its fear of the Soviet Union, Carter was "either deceitful or a fool." Said the former California Governor, alluding to the British appeasement of Hitler: "We're seeing the same kind of atmosphere that we saw when Mr. Chamberlain was tapping his cane on the cobblestones of Munich...
...WILL MR. MERRI WETHER RETURN FROM MEMPHIS? by Tennessee Williams...
...home on this southernmost tip of the continental U.S. since 1949, was in his reigning glory. The freshly completed $3.5 million Tennessee Williams Fine Arts Center, a unit of Florida Keys Community College, was dedicated; the day was officially proclaimed Tennessee Williams Day. His previously unproduced play, Will Mr. Merriwether Return from Memphis?, was given its world premiere. After the curtain dropped, a bash ensued in the theater lobby, complete with torrents of champagne and the sound of jazz classics rendered by the Basin Street Band, flown in from New Orleans for the occasion. A man without peer among living...
Tennessee Williams wrote Will Mr. Merriwether Return from Memphis? in 1969, when he was mourning the death of his friend Frank Merlo. Despite numerous freshets of humor, an undertow of grief runs through the drama. Williams put the play away for a decade. With the opening of the fine arts center bearing his name, he felt it was best to inaugurate the theater with a work no one had seen...
Among Williams' works, this play most nearly resembles Camino Real. But it is more pensive and muted, a violin to Camino Real's trumpet. Like Camino Real, Mr. Merriwether laces together reality and fantasy, the romantic spirit and the appearance of actual culture heroes of the past, such as Van Gogh and Rimbaud, here presented as "apparitions." In episodic fashion, Mr. Merriwether embraces the four major concerns that have spurred Williams' dramatic imagination: loneliness, love, the violated heart and the valiancy of survival...