Word: wilderness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thornton Wilder, no matinee idol at 51, prepared-to play both ends from the middle this week: the male lead in a Berkshire Playhouse version of The Skin of Our Teeth, by Thornton Wilder...
Herbert Davis, president of Smith College, financier Thomas S. Lamont '21, Thomas D. Cabot '19, playwright Thornton Wilder, David Rockefeller '86, and Henry L. Shattuck '01, member of the Corporation, also have participated in the coast-to-coast support of the Seminar...
...Manet grew older his realism began to seem acceptable, compared with the wilder menace of "impressionism." Manet refused to exhibit with the sunburned young landscapists, yet his defeats paved the way for their triumphs. Manet ended by cutting quite a swath in the Paris art world; the elegant prophet of painted light at last received an award he craved: the Cross of the Legion of Honor...
Caesar at Home. In Author Wilder's account, Caesar is a serious, capable executive who answers his letters promptly and fusses about the time he has to spend reading tiresome documents...
...best and most imaginative of Author Wilder's imagined documents are those written by the chief of Caesar's secret police, dealing with an attempt on Caesar's life after he has reluctantly agreed to attend Clodia's dinner. Wounded by assassins on the way, with two deep cuts in his right side reaching from his throat to his waist, Caesar nevertheless insists on going on, after his wounds have been bound with sea moss...