Word: cometh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When wise and tolerant President William Allan Neilson kissed his "2,000 daughters" goodbye and retired after 22 years, Smith College searched hard for a successor (TIME, Oct. 30, 1939). British-born, Oxford-educated Herbert John Davis took the job with misgivings: "What can the man do that cometh after the king?" Like Neilson, Davis had been an English professor (his specialty: Jonathan Swift); Smith trustees hoped to see the Neilson miracle reworked. But in eight years as president, Davis proved more distinguished for his prose style than his administrative tact. Last week, at 55, Herbert John Davis announced from...
Eugene O'Neill got a soaking in London too. The Times Literary Supplement seized the occasion of The Iceman Cometh's publication there to beat him black & blue. The characters in his plays were described as generally "ineffectual egotists," his philosophy was "jejune," Strange Interlude "badly bungled," Beyond the Horizon's leading man "a peevish Hamlet who whines and snivels," and the O'Neill dramaturgy generally "the sort of stuff that might be written by an earnest sophomore...
...stayed to join the infant Theatre Guild, played in 25 Guild productions (including Liliom, The Doctor's Dilemma). He reached stardom in 1938 as "Gramps," who chased Death up a tree in On Borrowed Time, won his final laurels in O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh...
...kingdom of heaven is as a man traveling into a jar country, "who called his own servants. . . . And unto one he gave five talents, to another two, and to another one. . . . After a long time the lord of those servants cometh. . . . And so he that had received five talents came and brought other five talents. . . . He also that had received two talents came and said, Lord . . . behold, I have gained two other talents. . . . His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant. . . . He which had received the one talent came and said, Lord . . . I was afraid, and went...
Drama. Eugene O'Neill's first play in twelve years, The Iceman Cometh, was second-rate O'Neill, but even so, added stature to the season. So did Another Part of the Forest, without being entirely first-rate Lillian Hellman. Meanwhile, a virtually unknown playwright, Arthur Miller, won the Drama Critics' award, with All My Sons...