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Deacon Mushrat is the first of these memorable figures, a Godsymp if there ever was one. "It should be brought out at this point," he intones at us in his mock Gothic script, nose and pince nex dabbling the air above the rostrum, "that the right handed person is correct, natural, and beloved by Providence." The tone deepens and the face frowns, nose still dabbling at the suspect air. "It has occurred to some of us who keep our eyes open that there are entirely too many left handed people worming their way into positions of power. According to reliable...
...long, difficult, and extremely complex drama. Heartbreak House consists of one part cheerful irrelevancies, one part the disillusionment of Ellie Dunn, and one part allegory. Most of the time, the irrelevancies are wound around Ellie's awakening and her spiritual marriage to Captain Shotover. At selected intervals, however, the script in effect announces, "And now--back to our allegory." The transitions are strained at best, and the East House production does not ease them much...
...Republicans-whose 1960 platform carried a similar proposal-were happy to be cosponsors, but that was about all. And Majority Leader Mike Mansfield ran the proceedings with a kind of tippy-toe Montana courtesy that called for no sessions at night, little interest during the day, and the gentlemanly script posted well in advance...
Next day he was off again by plane, helicopter and Jeep. Along the way, he filled his notebook with facts and figures in his small, meticulous, left-handed script. At Luong Son, a strategic hamlet that has already withstood seven Viet Cong attacks, McNamara asked how soon the nearest military post could be alerted, learned that because Luong Son lacks a radio transmitter, it takes four hours to summon aid by runners. Said he curtly: "Let's get radios in this area." At the resort town of Dalat, McNamara changed to black tie to dine with South Viet...
...Room at the Top, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning) have been tapped from the same source. This picture, based on a play by Shelagh Delaney, a Lancashire bus driver's daughter who was 18 when she wrote it, is as good as the best. In her first film script, touched up by Director Tony Richardson, the angry young ma'am displays dramatic drive, concussive humor, a barmaid's ear for dialogue, a slum kitten's shrewdness about people and motives, a melancholy flair for the poetry of wasted lives...