Word: cooperized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cast is so large, the production so elaborate, the touches of excellence so frequent that it is hard to decide whom to applaud first. But despite the strength of some individual performances director Ruffin Cooper, musical director David Nelson, and producer Sam Lewis are perhaps most deserving of praise...
...Director Cooper has taken what easily could have been an unmitigated disaster on a House stage and produced a finely integrated whole. His show does more than hang together, however; it jumps, it bounces, it swings with an exuberance that lasts throughout the evening. Dogpatch is not merely put on the stage for us to look and laugh at. Mr. Cooper has created a Dogpatch--a live, wonderfully human community of real people whose warmth goes beyond the curtains to envelop the audience...
Moorehead Cooper's Creek...
Married. Lady Jeanne Campbell, 35, only daughter of the Duke of Argyll's first marriage, newspaper columnist for her maternal grandfather, Lord Beaverbrook; and John Sergeant Cram III, 31, South Carolina gentleman farmer descended from Financier Jay Gould and Philanthropist Peter Cooper; both for the second time (she divorced Novelist Norman Mailer in December); somewhere in Maryland...
...underlying theme of U.S. literature as the "disintegration of the primal self." "On the top it is nice as pie, goody-goody and lovey-dovey. Like Hawthorne being such a blue-eyed darling, in life, and Longfellow and the rest such sucking doves." Underneath, "serpents they were." James Fenimore Cooper's Leatherstocking novels may read like adventure stories, but they are really primal myths about "the collapse of the white psyche divided between innocence and lust." Melville also "knew his race was doomed, his white soul, doomed. His great white epoch, doomed." As Edmund Wilson once ob served, Lawrence...