Word: anderson
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...Walker, vainly hoping that the unusual spelling of his first name would keep him from being "Charlie." He went to the universities of Texas and Pennsylvania, where he earned his doctorate in economics. After working as a Federal Reserve Bank economist, he became an assistant to Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson in 1959. From 1961 to 1968, while the Democrats were in power, Walker served as executive vice president of the American Bankers Association. He moved back to the Treasury Department as the No. 2 man after Richard Nixon's inauguration...
Winterset--Maxwell Anderson's urban plea for justice and young love. Closing on Saturday night at the Loeb, 64 Brattle...
Winterset-Maxwell Anderson's opus about Sacco, Vanzetti, love and death. A good production of a fairly uninspiring show. At the Loeb Theater, 64 Brattle St., Friday at 8, Saturday...
...Although Anderson deserves endless praise for leading American theater into relevance, it must also be noted that sometimes his techniques didn't work. Unfortunately, Winterset is one of those plays that didn't work; at least it doesn't now, forty-odd years after its premiere. In its relentlessly hammering sweep of great social themes, the powerful story of a star-crossed couple's evanescent love is overwhelmed and rendered somewhat cloying and melodramatic. Mixed into this background are poverty, injustice, collective as well as individual culpability, and the Sacco-Vanzetti trial...
...even if everyone on stage is working very hard and even if the set is gorgeous, Winterset somehow does not connect. Anderson was undoubtedly a major force, but his plays are better read than seen. The devices he used to break fresh ground in the '30s are old hat now; even if his themes of the injustice of American society and the innocence of Sacco and Vanzetti are true, they are buried in the inevitable and agonizingly slow lurch towards a mawkish, yet depressing conclusion. Anderson's plays are strongly reminiscent of another expression of his times-Socialist Realism...