Word: contrivedness
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Just a line, and this is a line, to thank you . . . for the text you contrived. ... I think it came out swell. It may interest you to know that a man eight feet tall, who just arrived with the circus, spoke with enthusiasm about your piece. This is high praise...
Reversing the usual formula and coming to Boston after a winnowing road trip, "Anna Lucasta" is a relief from the glut of ubiquitous tryouts that usually dominate the Boylston boards. After long acquaintance, the cast has mastered its vehicle sufficiently to give a performance that is fluid throughout, practiced, but...
Parlor Story is about a high-minded professor (Walter Abel) who wants to become president of his university. But he is soon snarled up in the political opportunism of the state governor, the wiles of an unscrupulous newspaper publisher, and the parlor tricks of his own meddling wife. All this...
Says Toynbee (near the end of the one-volume edition): "This chapter itself was written on the eve of the outbreak of the General War of 1939-45 for readers who had already lived through the General War of 1914-18, and it was recast for republication on the morrow...
Unlike oil and water, symbolism and realism can be mixed-but it takes a skilled hand. Ambitious young Novelist Jean Stafford (Boston Adventure) takes a try at it in her second novel, and doesn't bring it off. In parts The Mountain Lion is beautifully clear-a delicate, sharp...