Word: placeless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...became finally and truly lost. In almost all of his 17 novels he exhibited a fatal temptation to play the philosopher, to make a large statement. He described his 1950 drama Burning Bright, which closed on Broadway after only 13 performances, as "a morality play, completely timeless and placeless." He translated and retold Arthurian legend and once proposed collaborating with Director Elia Kazan in staging modern versions of Greek tragedy...