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...review. Gibbs wipes his mouth with napkin, stares at Doe somewhat frigidly. Doe says, "Will it be something like, Quote I'd say offhand that there are only about three newspaper reviewers here who are competent to write about anything, but it is absolutely absurd to make an issue out of this play, which has no merit whatsoever, unquote...
What was probably the last word belonged to the New Yorker's Wolcott Gibbs, whose review had not yet appeared. Said he: "I'd say offhand that there are only about three newspaper reviewers here who are competent to write about anything, but it is absolutely absurd to make an issue out of this play, which has no merit whatsoever...
Leonid Andreyev's play is difficult to produce because of its resemblance to the Scandinavian drama, especially of Strinberg, which, if not handled with great finesse, can all too easily collapse into a conglomeration of heroics and absurd fantasy. In his contemporary Gorki, the intellectual depression around 1900 produced revolutionary ideas; in Andreyev it resulted in the almost morbid gloom of such works as "The Red Laugh...
Virginia's Senator Harry F. Byrd promptly took occasion to call the trusteeship idea "absurd"-if Russia can claim and take strategic lands, why shouldn...
Such is the prestige of the King James Bible that any later translations seem as absurd and outrageous as rewriting Shakespeare. Worse, in fact, for Shakespeare is mere literature, and to many millions of Protestant Americans the Bible is the Word...