Word: playwrighting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...recommend books to local school boards. But the system seemed perilous to the Daughters of the American Revolution, who found the words of many a "subversive" author passing before the eyes of schoolchildren. Among such authors (most of them in standard anthologies of American literature): Novelist Jack London, Playwright Arthur Miller, Poets Carl Sandburg and Archibald MacLeish...
...Best Man. In the setting of a frenetic political convention, Playwright Gore Vidal shuffles his cardboard characters with dexterity, but, since no issue is ever mentioned, they could just as well be competing for the presidency of a cement company...
...Tenth Man. The girl is obviously psychotic, but Playwright Paddy Chayevsky-in a strikingly original play set in a Long Island synagogue-suggests that she might be possessed by a dybbuk, an evil spirit that has all but vanished from currency in the age of Freud...
Five-Finger Exercise. One of the Broadway season's few well-written plays is the work of British Playwright Peter Shaffer, who nearly kills an outsider by shoving him into the deadly crossfire of a devastatingly ordinary and unhappy family...
...Prodigal. Using the legend of Orestes, 24-year-old Playwright Jack Richardson makes a mocking, modern statement and turns what could have been a dry academic exercise into a deeply written, fully fleshed work of theater...