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...Insight into natural law" is Author Wylie's proposed solution. Children, he demands, must be taught that they are animals, not souls. They must be suckled not on clerical and patriotic values, but on Darwinism, anthropology, ethnology, Freudianism (one of Author Wylie's wilder notions is that some children should be placed on an island, "reached by tunnel from the mainland," where feeding-bottles and other nourishment will hang from bushes-giving peeking scientists a chance to study inborn faculties at their most virginal). Only when the resulting adult is thus "aware" and "conscious in the instinctual sense...
Next to modern escapist drama, voters signified a desire for modern tragedy, as Eugene O'Nell placed third in the playwright preferences of the interviewees. Behind O'Nell followed Noel C. Coward, Henrick Ibsen, Oscar Wilde, Maxwell Anderson, Clifford Odets, Anton Chekov, and Thornton Wilder. stated, "There was an almost intense monotony of response, which may perhaps be indicative of the stereotyped taste pattern of American audiences in general, and more particularly a definite escapist sentiment...
Playwright Thornton Wilder, for his help in planning combined operations in the Mediterranean, was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire, in Manhattan...
...catch the buyer's eye, record companies are turning some strange handsprings. Wagnerian Soprano Helen Traubel can be heard singing Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin' in one album, and in another, Frank ("The Voice") Sinatra, who can't read music, conducts a symphony orchestra in Alec Wilder's jazzy suites (Columbia, 6 sides...
...John Erskine's The Private Life of Helen of Troy; 1928-Thornton Wilder's The Bridge of San Luis Rey; 1931-Pearl S. Buck's The Good Earth; 1933-Hervey Allen's Anthony Adverse; 1936-Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind...