Word: eudora
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...country, much of the literary talent in the past thirty years has come from the South: Wolfe, Faulkner, Robert Penn Warren, Allen Tate, Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, and John Crowe Ransom. The South has its own colorful history, way of life and values, all of which came into conflict with the North, a region claiming moral superiority and possessing physical superiority. Southern writers became increasingly aware of the value of regionalism and fought the omnivorousness of Megapolis the exclusive formation of literary taste by New York. This moment reached its peak with the Southern Agarian movement led by Robert Penn...
...self-reliance crossed the Atlantic in the 1650s when Pieter van Doom arrived in Peter Stuyvesant's Manhattan from Gravezande, Holland. The family grew up in the U.S. heartland, on the farmlands of Illinois. Charles Lucius Van Doren was a kindly, industrious country doctor and farmer. His wife, Eudora A. Butz, was a stern taskmaster who at the age of ten carried the mail on horseback across the prairies. Married in 1883, they raised a family of five boys. "We lived together in a busy tumult," wrote Carl, the oldest of those sons, in his autobiography Three Worlds...
...Ponder Heart (adapted from Eudora Welty's story by Joseph Fields and Jerome Chodorov) puts all its slightly addled eggs in one basket-the basket of charm. Since they are really all Easter eggs to begin with, the thing works out very well. The whole Southern small-town tale of a lovable, eccentric ne'er-do-ill put on trial for murder has a light pastel daffiness about it, a way of making life look delightfully woozy through wrong-prescription rose-colored glasses...
...slight tale, the play retains a good deal of Eudora Welty's delicate tailoring. It can be as chatty and dawdling as a rural postman. But as against the flails and wind machines that keep most Broadway comedies in motion, The Ponder Heart catches a fresh and genuine creative breeze. For the most part, too, it moves along without having to wear either the pretty-pretty ballet slippers of fantasy or the hobnailed boots of farce. In a good production, David Wayne's Uncle Daniel is outstanding: he plays the part, not with small studio strokes, but with...
...Chodrov, however, do not search for comical situations in a plot which obviously has none to offer. Instead, they unmercifully exploit the humorous possibilities of Ponder's eccentricity. As a result, it is practically impossible to laugh with a character who must have been whimsical when short story writer Eudora Welty first created him. One has to laugh at him if one is to laugh at all; a lot of cruelty lies hidden underneath the glib surface of the comedy...