Word: hellman
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...laborers in other works. "The Cradle Will Rock" (1936), set in Steeltown, U. S. A., attacks the bourgeois who sell out to big business. In "No for an Answer" (1940) he pleads the case of summer workers facing seasonal unemployment. And his opera "Regina" (1949) is based on Lillian Hellman's anti-capitalist play "The Little Foxes...
Shrugs and Overstatement. There are two dangers in confronting the present conservation crisis. One "is to overstate the damage to the environment. The other is to fall into the kind of shoulder-shrugging despair best illustrated by Writer Lillian Hellman when her neighbors sought her help in protecting the island of Martha's Vineyard from a jet airstrip. "Everywhere else has been ruined," she replied. "Why should we be different?" Boyle avoids both pitfalls. Hand-wringing fishermen often exaggerate the ruination of the Hudson by pointing to a lack of salmon. By consulting records and fishery experts, Boyle...
...Lillian Hellman, another guest dramatist, first established herself as a major force in American theatre with The Children's Hour -a psychological drama dealing with lesbianism-that shocked audiences when it first opened in 1934. Later, she wrote The Little Foxes, and Toys in the Attic (1960), and was last year the recipient of the National Book Award...
...part of the Harvard population regardless of their dramatic interest-for the troupe has pioneered a new mode of theatrical presentation-while those more closely attuned to the proscenium stage may enjoy the opportunity to hear playwrights Charles Gordone (No Place To Be Somebody), Arthur Kopit (Indians), and Lillian Hellman (Toys in the Attic), or Village Voice Drama Critic John Lahr discuss their work...
Among those books nominated in the Arts and Letters category were Gore Vidal's Reflections on a Sinking Ship, Richard Howard's Alone with America, and Lillian Hellman's An Unfinished Woman...