Word: dramatistic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Padraic Colum, poet, critic and dramatist Litt.D...
...bright, Nathanic blend of impudence and intellect, rapture and irreverence. "Art," he held, "is a beautiful, swollen lie; criticism, a cold compress." While he derided "soapbox philosophers" and "commercial uplifters," Critic Nathan preached, cajoled and bullied to carve out a niche for Eugene O'Neill, the first U.S. dramatist to achieve worldwide renown. He worked as hard to popularize such famed European playwrights as Sean O'Casey, Ferenc Molnar, and Luigi Pirandello. Says the New York Times's Drama Critic Brooks Atkinson: "Nathan had as profound an influence on the American theater as George Bernard Shaw...
Elder of the two is Fausto Pirandello, 58, son of Italy's late, famed Dramatist Luigi (Six Characters in Search of an Author) Pirandello, and one of Italy's most decorated and honored artists (first prize at the Sixth Quadriennale, Taranto Prize in 1949, Fiorino Prize in 1953 and 1956, Gold Medal from the President of the Republic last year). For his first one-man show in seven years. Pirandello lined the walls of Milan's new Galleria Blu with 20 paintings which showed that as an artist he is haunted by the great styles that make...
Friedrich Hebbel, 19th century German dramatist, perhaps put his finger on why Compulsion fails to be large and liberating drama when he said that in a good play everyone must seem in the right. For the two killers this is impossible, less because of how hideous their crime is than how gratuitous: it lacks an understandably human motive. Clinically, the crime can be explained: given a lawless Jazz Age, two badly spoiled, rich men's sons, a homosexual neurosis and a Nietzschean intellectual arrogance, and such a chemical mixture may explode into murder-for-a-thrill. But the case...
...Columbia University, whose seasoned literary criticism was always lucid and shrewd, often eloquent and powerful; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. A student member of the Dublin circle of writers and poets who led the "Irish literary renaissance" before World War I, she married (in 1912) Padraic Colum, poet-dramatist founder of the Irish Review, settled with him in the U.S. Her last work-in-progress (with her husband): Our Friend James Joyce...