Play-Making: A Manual of Craftsmanship

by William Archer

of his optimistic confidence, and learns that he will have the

Compact Majority, not

at

, but

on

his back.

ACT IV.--THE COMPACT MAJORITY ON THE WARPATH.--The crowd, finding

that its immediate interests are identical with those of the

privileged few, joins with the bureaucracy in shouting down the

truth, and organizing a conspiracy of silence.