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...hard to figure out. He was 22 when he wrote the play, perhaps he was not yet confident to deal head-on with the real issues of the revolution. His later, more radical plays, evolved a whole new kind of theater. In "Drums" there are hints of his presentational mode; the characters often seem to step outside of themselves, the bourgeois are prototype bourgeois, the proletarians a somewhat unsympathetic prototype. Yet the distancing serves artistic ends rather than those of propaganda and social justice, as in Brecht's later works. And the completely apolitical, uninformed resolution of Kragler's dilemma...
...twin bombings alone, moreover, that influenced the mode and speed of the Japanese surrender. Other factors were involved, some of them impossible to measure. The Russian entry into the war on Aug. 9 surely played a role, most importantly in convincing the Japanese that they could no longer expect mediation through Moscow. Failure of imagination on the U.S. side had prolonged the war. Old Japan hands like Joseph Grew had encouraged the U.S. to declare forthrightly that Japan could keep its Emperor, but his advice was heeded only in the final days of the war. Less reliance on the Bomb...
...illuminating are the small details still perfectly recollected. People who were once children at the head of a soup line remember that they learned to beg the ladler for a deep stir so they would not get only flavored water. Women began appearing on that once all-male mode of transport, the freight car. A petty thief, lacking a gun for a sudden job, knew that corruption was so rampant that he could borrow the needed weapon from a cop on patrol. At farm foreclosure sales, friends would gather, bid 10? for every item, scare others out of bidding more...
...Porky, who was that rare animal which makes its way through the world with both saintly charity and sparkling good humor. We were very sad, all of us looking down at our plates. It was a small tragedy, perhaps an inversion of the Aristotelian "larger than life" mode, but we were exalted just the same. Until the girl who had cooked the meal started giggling and said "crispy critters." We laughed spastically...
...describe what she can do with a line like. "But I do wash his name out of my blood." In her performance there is not the slightest hint of labored delivery; all the words flow forth with seeming effortlessness, as though blank verse had always been her natural mode of discourse. Not the least impressive part of her playing comes in the long final scene, during which she is almost entirely silent; here she exhibits mastery of what the redoubtable Ethel Barry more called the hardest part of acting: the art of beautiful listening. It was a gracious gesture...