Word: earnestness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sacred offerings. The Radcliffe group has mellowed in the past year, although an absence of really first-rate soprano voices is still evident in the lovely Sanctus. Singing the Supplicationes with fine balance and diction, the low voices sacrificed some precision as Professor Woodworth wisely kept to the earnest simplicity of this work...
...measure on the intentions demonstrated by the present group seeking overseas education. By neglecting their scholastic objectives in favor of more bohemian ones, they can quickly transform a good thing into a tragic free-for-all, to the disadvantage of both French universities and well-intentioned students. Only the earnest need apply...
...Importance of Being Earnest (by Oscar Wilde; produced by the Theatre Guild & John C. Wilson in association with H. M. Tennent, Ltd.) brings John Gielgud back to Broadway for the first time since his Hamlet in 1936. In the interim, the 42-year-old Englishman has played Hamlet at Elsinore, offered British playgoers a cavalcade of the classics, given London a repertory company to rival the Old Vic. For his present visit, Gielgud apparently questioned the importance of being earnest: he would frivol first in Wilde's classic farce, later in Congreve's Restoration comedy, Love for Love...
...last week, nobody could take exception to his frivolity, for he was giving Wilde's finest play what it sorely needs and seldom gets - a wonderfully high-styled production. In The Importance of Being Earnest, Wilde tossed rubbishy"realistic" plots out the window to indulge his taste - and his talent - for nonsense. With its baby found in a handbag, its imperious dowager who is "a monster without being a myth," its one young man who invents a dissolute brother and its other young man who blithely proceeds to impersonate him, Earnest is often farce at its most absurd...
Steppenwolf tells the story, largely in dream events, of a fractured personality -Germany's, perhaps-tinged with Lutheran, Faustian, Nietzschean and Freudian influences, and in general quite a mess. An earnest, introverted work, full of prescience (World War II is assumed throughout), it stands, as fiction, deep in the shadow of Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain...