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...America was promises," wrote Poet Archibald MacLeish. As the Depression deepened, all the promises seemed to be perjured, giving at least plausibility to the Communist thesis that capitalism was in a state of "ever deepening" crisis. Some preferred to think it was a corpse already. One group called themselves "The Laughing Morticians." They included Alexander King, since become a TV chatterbox, satirist George Grosz, an exile from Nazi Germany, and Sociologist Gilbert Seldes, all of them eager to say the last rites over capitalism. The U.S.S.R., a distant and unverifiable protoutopia, brandished a blank check drawn on the future...
...Cantilevered Terrace (by William Archibald) is about a family that is distant in love, close in hate. Indeed, the hate is running so high that three minutes after the curtain rises, the son is plotting to have his best friend push his aging parents off a cliff to their deaths. The play, like the family, is haunting and irritating, eloquent and garrulous, terrifying and petulant, half gem and half paste...
...children as adults are steely, unforgiving judges. The second and last-act curtain sees the son's friend trailing the parents on his murderous mission. Playwright Archibald is wise enough to know that parents are loved and hated because they are parents and not necessarily for what they do and do not do, but he cannot achieve the emotional dis tance from his subject to move his son and daughter characters past love and hate to understanding...
Philip J. McNiff will become the first Archibald Cary Coolidge Bibliographer of Harvard University, according to Paul H. Buck, Director of the University Library. McNiff is now Associate Librarian for Resources and Acquisitions...
...explanations are probably true, and so are several others. James was almost certainly writing on many levels of meaning at once; moreover, he was shrewd enough to see that the tale gained fresh horror from every possible explanation. But the men who wrote this picture, Truman Capote and Playwright Archibald, unhappily press hard, much harder than James did, for the psychiatric interpretation. They have obviously failed to perceive that in suggesting a normal, everyday basis for the ghastly phenomena, they must inevitably relieve the spectator of his nameless horror of what happens. But isn't horror, when...