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...reviewer is a better Marxist than the author of the book seems hopelessly dated and quaint. Occasionally the proletcult critics were unconsciously quite funny--witness Mike Gold's attacks on Thornton Wilder. Wilder's religion was "a pastel, pastiche, dilettante religion, without the true neurotic blood and fire, a daydream of homosexual figures in graceful gowns moving archaically among the lilies. Or his description of Archibald MacLeish: a "white collar fascist out of Harvard and Wall Street." But they were mostly as dreary as the proletarian novelists they praised so excessively. Marxism's direct cultural impact on America was slight...
...lower-middle-class apartment in a Mid western city, Amanda Wingfield ("an exact portrait of my mother," says Williams) tries to cope with a peevish present by chattering of a fancied past. The son Tom (Williams) suffocates in a shoe factory and goes to movies to daydream of escape. The daughter Laura (Williams' sister Rose) has a mind and a personality as fragile as the little glass animals that deck her room. But the mother dragoons Tom into bringing home a marriageable "gentleman caller" for Laura. When the caller turns out to be engaged, and unintentionally breaks...
Presumed Married. Juan Perón, 66, ex-Dictator of Argentina, who long publicly shunned another marriage for fear it might smash his daydream of returning to power in the nation that once wanted to canonize his late wife Evita; and Isabel Martinez, 27, petite blonde "secretary" who has been his constant companion since shortly after his 1955 ouster and whom he began introducing socially as "my wife" after Christmas Eve Mass in Madrid; under unknown circumstances but probably in Panama soon after Perón's eviction from Argentina; he for the third time, she for the first...
These days, there is only one small sign that Romagna's pen is slowly tiring: the old nightmare has given way to a daydream in which Adlai Stevenson is President. This latter-day reverie has nothing to do with Romagna's political preference. To him, all men, including Presidents, are measured by the quality of their syntax, platform delivery and oral timbre. Using these criteria, Romagna says Stevenson would be a cinch to transcribe. "Adlai's English was made for the shorthand system," says Jack Romagna. "It's marvelous. He has a grand command...
...story," but Red China's official newspaper, People's Daily, promptly set the record straight. The Communist bloc would never stop "supporting the revolutionary struggles of the oppressed nations and people," said People's Daily, and anyone who thinks otherwise is living "an idiot's daydream...