Word: class
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Group Theatre produced Odets' sixth play, Rocket to the Moon. In Odets' own phrase, it is a play about middle-class love. Its people, running true to form, are frustrated, mired; but this time Society is not the villain...
Though not a Communist, Odets believes in "some kind of Socialism." As a playwright he has dealt less with the problems of the worker than with the "evils" of the middle class. "An artist cannot be for a middle-class civilization. If he is to write creatively," Odets asserts, "he must be what Andre Malraux calls a man of the opposition: he must cry: Down with the general fraud...
...Karl Frederick Geiser, a retired Oberlin College professor whose highest previous honor was a teaching fellowship in Germany during 1936-37. Author of a work called Democracy versus Autocracy (1918) and of a translation of Sombart's Deutscher Sozialismus (1937), Professor Geiser wanted to keep his medal (first-class German Eagle), did his best to make a case for it. Said he: "I have consistently attempted to maintain the historical attitude of understanding and interpreting Germany. . . . Assuming that my citation by the present German Government is a recognition and appreciation of my efforts in behalf of justice toward Germany...
...comment came from Stanford University's Professor-Emeritus William Alpha Cooper, made a first-class German Eagle, or Professor Ralph Haswell Lutz, second-class. Said President Ray Lyman Wilbur: "It looks like an attempt by Hitler to look for friends. I'm glad he didn't spot...
Last week when cocky young Chris, now 13, was reprimanded before his mates for sleeping in class, he elected to fight School-teacher Donald Mitchell, older but not larger than himself, was thrown out of the schoolhouse. Home he went, not to mother but to get one of mother's guns. Armed with a .22 calibre target pistol, he returned to school muttering threats and waving his gun. Schoolteacher Mitchell made no effort to stop the rush for the door, was glad when all his charges were safely out. prudently retreated himself. Chris, found some hours later...