Word: playwright
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Thornton Wilder, playwright and author, will be the Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at the University during 1950-51. He follows Paul Hindemith, current holder of the Norton Chair...
...club will have no faculty adviser for the present, although Archibald MacLeish, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory has offered his assistance on specific problems. Under the present plan, each playwright will direct or choose the director for his own play...
...Playwright Eliot, the modern world has still the look of a wasteland where drinks and tidbits are served. But his own stony The Waste Land lies now a long way off, for he himself has seen a hopeful way out. His Harley Street specialist is preaching Christian faith as well as Freud, concerned with love as well as sex; and is indeed more spiritual adviser than psychiatrist. After his perplexed visitors have left, he and his assistants drink a libation of red wine-in telling contrast to a frivolous champagne toasting at the cocktail party-and chant for Celia...
...character that he has little time left for the characters in his stories. Bright and shiny on the surface but mushy and sentimental at the core, the stories are pretty much standard Saroyan: a boy steals a hammer and feels stripped of his dignity when caught; a wacky playwright buys a punch bowl and a dozen cups for $1,050 from Cartier without knowing how he is to pay for them; an abandoned boy is befriended by a bighearted bartender; a middle-aged writer gets the fantods in Lisbon. And all the while Saroyan is passing out breathless bromides about...
Familiar Tunes. Publisher Laughlin's name writers are more readable, though all of them pluck away predictably at familiar tunes. Playwright Tennessee Williams (A Streetcar Named Desire) explores more horror south of the Mason-Dixon line in the story of a frigid, middle-aged writer's passion for a horsy Mexican girl, also contributes some frank blank verse titled Counsel about Paris whorehouses. Expatriate Novelist Henry Miller (Tropic of Cancer) writes his way around his subject (Rimbaud) and plunges defiantly into his own thrice-told life and hard times. Most engaging poet: William Carlos Williams, who keeps...