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by JOHN WEIR
[ from The
New York Times ]
In a classic scene from Robert Anderson's "Tea and Sympathy,"
a 1950's Broadway play about a teenage boy whose classmates
taunt him for acting like a girl, the boy's closest straight
buddy tries to teach him to walk like a man. Of course, the
boy can't get it right. He walks back and forth across the room,
aping his friend, but failing to swagger and glare convincingly.
Finally, he is saved from his ruinous girlishness only by the
headmaster's wife, who seduces him, saying famously, "Years
from now, when you talk about this — and you will —
be kind." Continued…
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