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...here, and every decent tendency finds its complement in sterility and futility. Our confused middle-class today, which dares little, is dangerously similar to Chekhov's people. Which is why the people in Awake and Sing! and Paradise Lost (particularly the latter) have what is called a 'Chekhovian quality.' Which is why it is so sinful to violate their lives and aspirations with plot lines. Plots are primer stuff, easily learned...
...verse and has the opportunity to throw a wine glass at a radio during an Armistice Day program. In addition to the sleeping sickness victim there is still another very juicy part, that of an eccentric family friend who totters about muttering significant irrelevancies. He supplies most of the "Chekhovian quality...
...trip, and comes back a corpse on the same ship; the hero, a symbol of everything cheap in commercial civilization, is contrasted with the pitiless realities of sea and storm. Though he has a resounding reputation as a realist (his "big novel," The Village, is written in naturalistic, Chekhovian style) Author Bunin was once numbered among the symbolists, has also written and translated verse-notably Byron's "Manfred" and "Cain" and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Hiawatha...
...Monica faints. Joe learns from her that she, his only consolation, must go away. An illegal operation has infected her and she is doomed. Gradually the household betake themselves to bed and Authoress Dix reviews them as they lie, wrapped in their several irremediable miseries. With a Chekhovian eye for the follies and pettinesses that have jockeyed her characters into their blind alleys, Authoress Dix, hitherto a writer of juvenile books, has not the Chekhovian restraint to leave them there, to wither or to work their way out. She writes in judgment, like the blight; and God (three parts machinery...
Critics of the play seemed not quite sure whether it was bad or mediocre, but were reminded of Chekhov's Cherry Orchard. Unlike the Chekhovian piece, Playwright Gretchen Damrosch Finletter's play depends entirely on its urban scene. The Frenches were a proud, suave clan as long as they could cling to their Fifth Avenue mansion. When the son gets into financial trouble, compels the family to sell the homestead to keep him out of jail, the Frenches become impotent, scatter like smoke in the wind...