Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Last week Wendell Willkie was at Jupiter Island, Fla., sleeping, reading, basking, bicycling for exercise. He had not yet helped the Republican Party solve the problem of who would be its national chairman for the next four years. Whether he would try to keep Representative Joe Martin in the job or let the post pass to the hands of some willing party hack was a question still in suspense. Columnist David Lawrence, in his United States News, seized the moment to make a wholly unorthodox suggestion...
...most vital problem was one of logistics-getting hundreds of trucks full of food and ammunition daily over hundreds of miles of tortuous mountain roads to supply the over-extended forces. Next he had to bring over from Italy whole new armies to replace the beaten Ninth Army in the north and the newly arrived but already disorganized Eleventh Army in the south. Meantime, Greek and British bombers hammered at the landing places, rendered Valona and Durazzo "almost useless" in the wake of the new arrivals, threatened to cut off their supplies and redouble General Soddu's problem. British...
...Ibsens and Chekhovs, can do it. Fledgling, adapted from Authoress Chilton's novel Follow the Furies, does it, though it is hardly a great play. It also does other, much less admirable things-confuses its central tragedy with subplots and religious argument in the manner of old-fashioned "problem plays." But the hell remains visible, registers hard...
Many Manhattan critics, fixing on the intermittent "problem-play" tone of the drama, wrote of it with patronizing witticisms. An exception was the Post's sensitive, scholarly John Mason Brown, who gave Fledgling one of the longest play reviews of the season, said: "It treats playgoers as grownups and the theatre as an adult institution...
Part III affects to be a manuscript found in a lake. Actually it is a diary of Kierkegaard's own unhappy love affair. Said he, "I am experiencing more poetry than there is in all romances put together." His problem: "Dare a soldier on the frontier (spiritually understood) take a wife, a soldier on duty at the extremest outpost, who is fighting day and night . . . against the robber bands of an innate melancholy. . . ?" In his soul-searching the diarist approaches the last stage in life's way, the religious...