Word: streetcars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Method-acting school, Williams automatically had to become the focal point of the repertory. But which plays? Helen Hayes and her Government-sponsored ANTA company were soon to tour Latin America with The Glass Menagerie. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof was just "too dirty," and A Streetcar Named Desire called for too large a cast. So the group ended up doing Suddenly, Last Summer and Sweet Bird of Youth, the one a swift history of a young girl whose mind shattered when her cousin was eaten alive by street urchins, the other a dreary shockfest about a young actor...
...stories and novels are not so much perceived as vaguely apprehended, looming unexpectedly through an ambiance of feeling. In her oblique vision the disappointments of childhood are glimpsed in a puddle of frozen gutter water, the fears of adulthood suggested by the sharp, metallic smell of a nearly defunct streetcar line. The method can be tedious, but in her second novel, New Orleans-born Author Grau proves again that in the hands of a first-rate storyteller the shortest route between fact and feeling is not necessarily the straight line...
Departing, after a theatrical year that rather resembles a turkey trot, Kronenberger is content, at 56, to recall more enchanted evenings from the past. Among them: The Little Foxes, The Chalk Garden, Tiger at the Gates, Don Juan in Hell, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Misanthrope. Says he: "The idea that reviewers love bad shows so they can be very clever is the reverse of the truth. If you like a play, your praise carries the reader with you. If you don't like it, you have to sustain the reader's interest. Two of the most delightful...
...Streetcar Blur. Ballistocardiographers, led by the University of Pennsylvania's Dr. Isaac Starr, contend that measurements of these and of minor additional thrusts show how well the heart and arteries are working. But the accelerations must be measured in thousandths of a G (the pull of gravity). No building is steady enough to be free of movements that confuse the sensitive machine. In Philadelphia, Dr. Starr got blurs on his ballistocardiograms every time a streetcar rumbled by eight floors below. To cushion out such vibrations, researchers have turned to various systems of floating the body-strapped to a board...
...town they try to board a streetcar; no wardrobe closets allowed. They try to make friends with a girl; when the wardrobe comes, she goes. They walk into a restaurant; sorry, no diners with closets. They try to rent a hotel room; already has wardrobes. Wearily they stagger on, wondering what sort of world has no room for people with wardrobe closets...