Word: everymanic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...perpetuates some 19th century misunderstanding of the poet. The most debatable point is that Dante used the Inferno for personal vindictiveness, to damn his political enemies, while demonstrating extreme lenience toward old friends like Brunetto Latini. Dante's work is primarily an inward journey into the soul of everyman and an exposure of the possibilities of evil therein. The figures that Dante encounters, therefore, symbolize evils that the poet condemns in himself as well as in others...
Tennessee Williams (just to start with somebody good) has endorsed, as in a television commercial, the talent of his friend Bill Inge and assured us that a play produced by Inge-art will carry us through the trivial details of everyman's day into that playpen of pain and love, the human heart, and that it will do this miraculously, suddenly droppings us at the doorstep of inner truth just when we thought that the real problem was Mama's bank account and not Mama's need for love. And there was a time (Come Back Little Sheba, Picnic...
...VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE has all the compassion and sensitivity to Everyman's feeling of the best of early Arthur Miller. The tragedy brought by a Brooklyn longshoreman to himself and his family is movingly depicted by a fine cast...
...Everyman...
...flask was passed by Captain Edward Molyneux, making his return to fashion at 71, after 15 years devoted to painting. His collection evoked memories of the days when Greta Garbo, Marlene Dietrich, Gertrude Lawrence and the Duchess of Kent-all faithful Molyneux clients-were Everyman's symbols of feminine elegance...