Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...start the cycle before he became fascinated by its characters and wrote two other plays exploring their ancestors. Generally, Sweden's critics applauded O'Neill's story of Cornelius Melody, a drunken, frustrated Irishman who runs an inn near Boston in 1828, and lives in a dream world of past glories. "As gigantic as Long Day's Journey Into Night," wrote one critic, "but not quite so imposing and important a play." Summed up one first-nighter: "Great theater...
...Need to Dream. In A Touch of the Poet, O'Neill explores the theme he used in The Iceman Cometh-a man needs to dream-but he laces the bitter, dialectic dialogue between Melody and his family with rollicking humor and blazing theatrics. Melody keeps a thoroughbred mare to bolster his pride, yet forces his daughter to work as a waitress. When he swaggers out to challenge a rich Yankee who has insulted his family, he is beaten into the dust by servants, and his dream world shatters. His daughter, who has ridiculed his false life, is horrified...
...five-week-old show, which is carried by 37 NBC stations, is often less notable for the answers it evokes than the questions it asks. A few examples from the McCrarys' interview with Actress Mary Martin: "Do you envy Marilyn Monroe? Do you dream in color? If you had married Winthrop Rockefeller, would you have just loafed? Do you get jealous of your husband's old girls?" Says Tex: "We try to hurt only people who are able to defend themselves...
...announcer's words echoed, through Kansas City's Municipal Auditorium: "This is the dream college game of our time." It would have been a miscarriage of justice if any other teams but North Carolina and Kansas had reached the finals of the N.C.A.A. tournament last week...
Married. Betty Field, 39, actress of stage (Dream Girl) and screen (Of Mice and Men); and Edwin J. Lukas, 55, lawyer; she for the second time (her first: Playwright Elmer Rice), he for the third; in Manhattan...