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...event marred the evening for some. Thornton Wilder, after an appeal for funds, lectured the audience vehemently on its "bad performance" during the O'Hara play, at which it had laughed loudly (and which got an extra curtain call). I think Mr. Wilder misjudged both the play and the audience's response; if so, his action was regrettable...
...years since flying saucers first came flipping and flashing across Page One, the wilder stories about tiny men from Mars and interplanetary craft that dissolved in the earth's atmosphere had been pretty well exposed as hoaxes or hallucinations. But most people were still sure that some kind of unidentified flying object did exist, and they wanted some sense-making explanation. Last week they got the best one yet. It came from Dr. Urner Liddel, chief nuclear physicist for the Office of Naval Research...
Thornton N. Wilder, Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, portrayed Edgar Allen Poe as a "detective, criminal, and victim" in Sanders Theatre last night. This was the initial talk of a second series of Charles Eliot Norton lectures...
...Wilder's speech was not primarily a description of Poe's sufferings, for "they do not make his writings one jot better. . . . Intellects are not made by suffering," Rather, he described the writer "in and for himself," by looking at various examples of his work "as facets of his emanation...
...termed Poe as a "real lion-tamer, he is only happy among real lions." Wilder discussed the degree of Poe's merit, his control, "which he did not always maintain," and his interest in the mind as the instrument of understanding...