Word: didacticism
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Today, Ibsen-dotting every i, megaphoning every idea-seems most merciless toward his audience. And the current production is not only didactic, but thoroughly inept. Maurice Evans, for example, portrays Hialmar so broadly that he might be playing Micawber, so stagily that he might be spouting blank verse.
The two most important offerings are verso plays: one a translation by Gerhard Nellhaus of Bertolt Brecht's "The Lesson," the other an original one-acter, "Three Words in No Time," by Lyon Phelps. "The Lesson," which is the better of the two, I think, defies analysis. It has almost...
"Present ocular reflexes indifferent. Very strong tendinous reactions. Trembling in tongue and fingers. Hyper-emotivity. Intelligent. Able to go straight to the core of a doctrine. A didactic tone hostile to originality. Temperament of a professor. Artistic but republican mind. Possibility of a cure following a fit of modesty. His...
71. Religious, didactic, and in verse, yet withal a smashing success, is Poet T.S. Eliot's play:
Around the blue baize table in London's gloomy Lancaster House, the Western Big Three Foreign Ministers conferred for three days. Dean Acheson, crisp, clear and didactic, drove home his sharp points with a wagging forefinger. Britain's ailing Ernest Bevin, chomping away at his dentures, was his...