Word: mournin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dehn rewrites Oklahoma! in the Chekhov manner ("0 what a beautiful mournin' ") or when S. J. Perelman asks once again, "Odets where is thy sting?" and proves the superiority of one who knows that he is a clown to one who does not. College instructors should perhaps prescribe the book as esthetic therapy. Not that even today's sophomores are likely to lose their critical faculties over a ghost of the '30s like Clifford Odets; nor. as E. B. White proves in a one-page version of Somerset Maugham, is the jejune quality of the Old Party...