Word: authored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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AMERICAN businessmen must now take the role of the businessmen-diplomats of 50 years ago." Few men practice their preachments with more determined zeal than the author of those words, Norman Kenneth Winston, 59, an impish-faced, meticulously dressed man who ranks among the world's biggest builders (more than 20,000 houses and apartments worth $300 million), runs so many construction and real estate companies (more than 100) that he has lost count, manages a huge personal fortune ($40 million)-and still finds time to hustle continuously from continent to continent as envoy extraordinaire of U.S. capitalism. This...
Tennis, Everyone? Author Golden has a Negro bartender-chauffeur now and a packed lecture schedule, but otherwise seems little altered by his success (or by the disclosure last year that he had once served a prison term for mail fraud). Golden believes he is successful because not only Jews but others can identify themselves with his stories: "Until now, writers of immigrant literature treated it all like a case history. Some were frankly ashamed of it. They made out like it was mysterious, and something the quicker over with the better. I came along and told the same story without...
...three hours and fifteen minutes in its deft and buoyant revival by the Group 20 Players. In order to make this enormous masterwork fit such a brief compass, the usual expedient is to cut the dream scene in hell, a glorious ideological quartet for voices, specifically designed by the author as a detachable interlude. The reigning powers at Group 20 have decided to leave in the hell scene, and to take in compensation frequent cuts and tucks and darts and snatches throughout the play, which necessarily means eliminating some of the best stuff...
...Superman had its inception, says its author with a perfectly straight face, in a suggestion by the critic A. B. Walkley that Shaw write a play about Don Juan. The old story of the Spanish libertine and defier of God had for Shaw two aspects, the sexual and the philosophical. These produced, or at least informed, respectively, the play and the dream-scene within it, which together justify the subtitle of Man and Superman, "a Comedy and a Philosophy." (This is not to say, of course, that the main play lacks philosophy or the interlude lacks comedy. Shaw's peculiar...
...word, according to Shaw, Don Juan is a proto-revolutionary, and so his Shavian descendant John Tanner is portrayed as a social agitator and the author of The Revolutionist's Handbook and Pocket Companion, which Shaw thoughtfully appends to the published edition of the play. In his own person, Tanner enunciates Shavian doctrine on such sublunary matters as sex, social convention, and moral passion. As Don Juan in the hell scene he discourses with equal brilliance on the Life Force, the nature of Nature, and the whole duty of man, arguing against the Devil's hedonistic creed of "love...