Word: plotting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...course the English scheme previously referred to. Then President Lowell, by building Lionel, Mower, Straus, Lehman, and the Wigglesworths, brought back the "fringe" system proposed in Bulfinch's day, so that now all of the various plan schemes are represented in the composite group on the college plot. This is less satisfactory than a big modern monumental layout perhaps--but it is more interesting
...written just for her, then Gladys George is a playwright's dream. For "Lady In Waiting," which Margery Sharp adopted from her own novel, is far from a great play. And yet with Miss George sparking it on, laughing and flouncing through inane situations, the loose joints of the plot all fold into place and the minor characters, typed as they are, can be laughed away...
...plot, which you may remember from Miss Sharp's "The Nutmeg Tree," is a set-up for the extravaganza which Miss George dotes on. It opens with her in a bath tub, selling a lot of junk to a pawn broker who stands outside the door. It ends with Miss George, as Sir William's wife, claiming the title of "Lady," rarely associated with her name before. In between Miss George returns to her daughter, whom she hasn't seen since she was three and finds her a prig and just as stuffy and sure of herself as the rest...
...first, the plot would seem to be thread-bare, even implausible in spots. Well, it is. And many of the speeches are dull and the minor characters poorly drawn. But Gladys George dominates the play like Louis XIV's sun. And like him, "la piece...
Like the sectional tale, the picaresque novel is a natural form for a nation 3,000 miles wide, as it is for the writer who 1) wants to assemble incidents without pretext of a plot, 2) feels vague cosmic significances in man's wanderings. This week two picaresque stories are mirror images of each other. In Transit U. S. A. (Stokes; $2.50) Author W. L. River leads simple-minded Curly Martin from California through Arizona deserts, a Missouri road gang, Chicago's skid road, Ohio industrial warfare to Manhattan in a vain search for the capitalist who unwittingly...