Word: context
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since drunk scenes in comedies have a way of being funny independently of their context, why not turn out a play that consists almost entirely of drunk scenes? Why not, in fact, write Drink To Me Only? Well, two jokers named Abram S. Ginnes and Ira Wallach have done it. When they finish rewriting, they might well have on their hands a piece of farce of cataclysmic jocularity...
Like a Club. In its oligarchic context, the Byrd organization is an alliance of gentlemen, and a gentleman is known more by his philosophy and politics than by his purse or pedigree (gentle-born...
...been through all this before. In 1956, for the U.S. Steel Hour, he had written another play that roughly paralleled the Till tragedy and watched disgustedly as it changed by sponsor's edict. His summary: "Every word of dialogue that might be remotely 'Southern' in context was deleted or altered. A geographical change was made to a New England town. When it was ultimately produced, its thesis had been diluted, and my characters had mounted a soapbox to shout something that had become too vague to warrant any shouting...
Sometimes the expansiveness of the business ethic raises cries of monopoly, illegal practices, or coercion; and the HSA, placed in the context of a sensitive and critical student body, has suffered from the awareness of a non-business community that a stranger is in its midst...
...this context it is clear that at least one reviewer is not very happy with either the fragments of William Palmer's novel "Coyahique," or Edgar de Bresson's story "Down There Where It's Beautiful." The fragments of the novel never achieve any coherence, nor do their baffling lack of focus suggest any very obvious truth about the South American revolution which they portray. De Bresson's story, on the other hand, is not a fragment, but rather an epitome of sickness, a suitable inside for the hideous color combination of the cover. It is not that the story...