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Playwright Black begins her tender drama with the children's party, during which Martin evidences his desire to ''spy'' on grownups. In the next scene, pitched 20 years into the future, Martin gets his wish. During a weekend party given by his now adult companions, the cook reports that a funny kind of a man has appeared at her kitchen asking for cake. The man, Martin (James Bell), is brought in. He captivates the company with his ingenuousness, his embarrassing candor about the most personal matters, his in cessant hunger. More than anyone else, Phyllis...
...procedure thus far followed by the office is to invite students to come and discuss their problems. The Consultant may tender some statistics on salaries, or the demands of each type of work. Helpful as these may be, they do not satisfy the most vital need of the student. That need is not so much a knowledge of the conditions in the professions, or in civil engineering, or in salesmanship, for in a general way everyone knows what abilities are demanded. The important question which haunts the minds of hundreds of students is, "Do I possess these abilities...
...whole process has about it an air of unconscious irony, faintly reminiscent of the educational methods pictured in Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World." For it is not hard to guess what type of picture the teachers will choose for their tender-minded young charges: it is almost certain to be "educational" and "uplifting," and its capacity to amuse is likely to run in indirect ratio to its capacity for moral elevation. The students will go to the selected shows because they are forced to, and they will take part in the classroom discussions as perfunctorily as they swallow...
...hand two months ago, the first time Orchestra-Leader George Olsen played it at New York's Paramount Theatre and young Joe Morrison, a member of the Olsen troupe, shy, unaffected, unknown, stepped up to the amplifier and started to sing slowly, to a tender swinging rhythm: I'm headin' for the Last Round-Up, Gonna saddle old Paint for the last time and ride.* The Paramount audience that day suddenly found itself strangely affected, listened as it would have listened to an old familiar ballad. For the last time Billy Hill's cowboy coaxed...
...regret deeply." said President de Valera in the Dail last week, "that I should have given publicity to a falsehood. I tender my apologies to Deputy Mulcahy...