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This play’s protagonist claims that a medal inscribed “For Vaguery in the Field” should be given to his brother-in-law, (10[1])whom he calls “The Platitude from Outer Space.” (10[1])This play’s second act ends with a man declaring “get out, you evil-minded little virgin” to a woman who slaps him and then begins kissing him. This play’s protagonist repeatedly yells (10[1])and curses whenever church bells sound offstage, and he later plays jazz trumpet (10[1])while his wife admits that she had a miscarriage during his affair (-5[1])with her friend Helena. (10[1])In (-5[1])this play, (10[1])an ironing (10[1])board is overturned (10[1])in a fistfight with the (10[1])Welsh lodger (10[1])Cliff, burning the arm of the protagonist’s wife Alison. (10[1])For 10 points, (10[2])Jimmy Porter (10[3])is the protagonist (10[1])of what play by John Osborne, whose title spawned the name (10[1])of a literary group of “young men”? ■END■ (10[1]0[1])

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