Word: caulfield
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
When one sees a play as engaging as Edward Caulfield's The Idea, he hesitates before writing a review. To explain what Mr. Caulfield has done and how he has done it, is simple enough; but to explain how he has achieved a balance between a two-hour moral and a well integrated play is indeed a difficult task...
...follower of our liberal tradition he is inclined to believe at the beginning of the play, that Mr. Caulfield appears in the story as Octavia Cooper, a young English girl who speaks the lines of the modern free thinker. She tells us that one must not be dominated by an idea; an idea is not good when it demands rigid compliance on the part of its followers. The liberal may think that this is a forceful statement of his position...
Through his story it appears that Mr. Caulfield has intended to merely set the problem before his audience. Both theories survive in the end, but to this observer at last, it seemed that the importance of the individual was given the greatest emphasis...
...absolute in itself. In order to exist they must do away with one of the others. The person who feels that he must assassinate the dictator is wrong, because he does not realize that an idea which depends on the extermination of another to survive is weak. What Caulfield sets up as the present American tradition fails because it places such a high value on its own ideals that it cannot allow mention of others...
Playhouse of Stars (Fri. 9 p.m., CBS). Girl in a Million, with Joan Caulfield, John Forsythe...