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...Shape. With money and a cast, the show still had a long way to go. Willson's script needed cutting and shaping to give it a nonstop lilt and easy movement. Director Da Costa, a craftsman who has worked quietly in the theater for more than 20 years, buckled down. Says he: "I thought the time had come to send the public out of the theater light-hearted instead of depressed. I wanted this to come off as a story about a charming renegade who reforms, a show with a lot of love and no hate, one that...
...Advocate's April issue contains one poem which is not merely an experiment, but is also a poem-for-readers. Richard Sommer's "Three Legends for Fishes" is the finished product of a competent craftsman, and makes the rest of the issue seem unusually amateurish. Although "Legends" would not deserve the American Academy Poetry Prize which Sommer has won in his second year of graduate school, the poem nevertheless shows a consideration for the reader which is conspicuously absent from the work of most younger writers, including the other three contributors to this issue...
...week was, in a broad sense, exactly what he had been doing since he assumed the Democratic Senate leadership five years before: devoting all his energy to building a record for the Democratic Party in a Republican Administration and, what he considers synonymous, the record of a master legislative craftsman, Lyndon Baines Johnson...
...wonderful gatehouses, animal or vegetable apartment-house façades and phantasmal parks that out-Disney Disneyland delighted Barcelonians, even when they were surfaced for economy's sake in broken tiles, old pots and broken glass. Gaudi's greatest problem was that his designs demanded a craftsman's skill to execute and his on-the-spot presence to construct...
...reflects the relative force of Thomas Wolfe and Sherwood Anderson--Wolfe a chaotic, massive, but overwhelmingly vital power, and Anderson a smaller, more controlled talent. Whereas Angel as a book has the solid core but lacks shape, Winesburg, despite its wellshaped phrases, has a weaker core. Therefore a stage craftsman can, by pruning and shaping, transfer and even intensify much of Thomas Wolfe; the only important element lost in making Angel into a play was the visible stagnation and oppressive boredom, which are communicable far more easily in a long novel than in a tight play. On the other hand...