Word: compounding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Theatre, it is the first Manhattan production of the play since the Moscow company visited the city five years ago. Despite the fact that Mr. Laurence's version employs such U. S. colloquialisms as ''bunk . . . all wet . . . caught with his pants down," it preserves the strange compound of squalor and beauty with which the original depicts a sorry crowd of derelicts living in an unspeakable Moscow basement and, like tatterdemalion philosophers, pondering their own destiny and that of the race. In an almost formless succession, each of these is scrutinized by the playwright who strips away...