Word: chekhovs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cold eye, who finds himself bewildered because, though he knows he shouldn't be, he is unhappy. Another is an ugly, peevish, middle-aged nurse secretly in love with feeble Dr. Suprugov. The doctor himself, a weak, cunning, vain, lying, frightened creature, might have come out of Chekhov...
...best of Séan O'Faoláin's stories belong with those of Chekhov. This 48-year-old Irishman, born in Cork, fought in Ireland's Civil War and afterwards, in Midsummer Night Madness, wrote a series of haunting stories about it. They had the hard authenticity of firsthand pictures of war and revolution, with none of the drab, repetitious prose that is now almost a trademark of war novels. His themes were as subtle as Turgenev's, with clear and vivid pictures of action, but the distinction of his work was its fine...
...also a year in which literary figures were allowed to speak for themselves: Andre Gide's Journal, Vol. 2, rich with evidence of the creative mind's way of work; Franz Kafka's morbid Diaries; Anton Chekhov's plain, warm Private Papers; Edwin Arlington Robinson's letters in Untriangulated Stars which told the painful story of an American poet's struggle for survival...
...York Times's drama critic and onetime Moscow correspondent, saw the Art Theater in 1923, 1935 and 1945-46. Atkinson believes that the clammy hand of bureaucracy has turned the Art Theater into something routine and mechanical. Says he: the great spirit that nurtured Gorky and Chekhov and inflamed theater-lovers the world over is gone...
Women, deprived of the company of men, pine; men, deprived of the company of women, become stupid.-Chekhov...