Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Couples is flawed by overwriting and undercharacterization, but the charge of irrelevance will no longer stand up. Updike has taken a particularly American theme, and a highly topical one. One character sums it up thus: "We're a subversive cell, like in the catacombs. Only they were trying to...
Most of the gossip concerns Piet Hanema, redhaired, stocky, 35-year-old father of two girls, housebuilder and restorer, a man "in love with snug, right-angled things." He is at once the sturdiest and the most pathetic character in Couples, a quasi-Christian and would-be family pillar who...
The three winners are Bernard Bailyn, Winthrop Professor of History, for The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution; Henry Allen Bullock of Texas Southern University for A History of Negro Education in the South from 1619 to the Present; and Richard L. Bushman '53 of Brigham Young University for From...
Surrounding The Bald Soprano are two lesser creations, one camp and one original. The former, Kenneth Koch's George Washington Crossing the Delaware, recites the story of this lackluster incident in history with a super-patriotic relish, thereby mocking the origin and purpose of this country. While the actors, under...
Play does have a sound-dramatic structure, but it somehow fails to involve the audience in the problem it seeks to pose. Hart doesn't really speak his mind until past the half-way point. By then it's too late to build suspense, and the action gallops along at...