Word: streetcars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These are snatches of a tune that Uta Hagen, as Blanche DuBois, sings near the end of "A Streetcar Named Desire." In the hands of author Tennessee Williams, the lines are more than part of a song. They contain the despairing Blanche's philosophy, and as such they are the theme of one of the most moving tragedies of the theater today...
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...