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...people of the tiny Colombian village of Pauna, snuggling in the Andean foothills a day's motor drive from Bogotá, the new bridge over the deep, swift Río Minero had seemed as permanent and reassuring as Thornton Wilder's bridge of San Luis Rey. It was made of wood, suspended from steel cables. Across the 100-ft. span, donkey carts rattled, bringing produce to market. Across it, campesinos and the mountain people trudged to Pauna for the Saturday fiestas...
Playwright Thornton Wilder learned that he was a banned author in Germany's Soviet zone. The Skin of Our Teeth had the wrong "theories about the inevitability of war," and Our Town had the wrong attitude toward family life...
With every passing Yule since grandpa was a sophomore, the suggestions have become wilder...
...Will Wait? Some readers will agree with Thornton Wilder that although such writing may not really "elucidate" anything, it contains an interesting insight. They will agree that it is typical of Americans to be impatient, to move on rather than to stay put, to "make money" rather than earn a living in the closefisted way of the French peasant. If the ordinary reader cannot wait while Miss Stein circles about such ideas, that goes to prove her point...
...Wilder is sad about this. "Neither her company nor her books," he says, "were for those who have grown tired of listening. It was an irony that she did her work in a world in which for many reasons and for many appalling reasons people have so tired...