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Actually, The World's Last Corner is a picaresque novel with the juice squeezed out. The traditional picaresque offers a rogue-hero merrily breaking social conventions to rise from squalor to respectability; Plieviers hero, Wenzel, is more victim than rogue - a seafaring, 20th Century Everyman who breaks the laws of society only because he wants...
...Lyon Phelps '45, spokesman for the group, announced last night that the first program would be made up of four one-act plays "Everyman," a masque by John Ashbery '50; "Interlude," by Richard Eberhart; "Try! Try!" by Francis O'Hara '50; and "A Play About Three Words," by Phelps. All of these poets have had poems published...
...sort of modern Everyman, Randall has Everyman's troubles with Nobody's ability to handle them. On page 11 he meets an "older woman" of 26 on a London tram. Only 20, and at his author's mercy, "Randall saw the full lips and not the weak chin," and so they were married. "Her hot shallow passion . . . roused convulsive feelings in Randall . . . The deep wells within him gushed with tenderness . . . And then peace descended on them both . . . like night coming down upon a tropical sunset"-in a London hotel...
...outline, foggier in theme, harder to unravel. Like them, they feature literal and psychological nakedness. His first two books were worth the time of anyone who was willing to look at himself in psychic undress and momentarily exchange his individuality for the plight of today's mythical Everyman. Dean doesn't have "entirely different thoughts now" (see cut); he merely has more incomprehensible ones. Psychiatrists may decide that Dean is now poking around at a deeper level of the subconscious; to plain folks and old-fashioned artists, it may merely seem that Dean conceived and drew them...
Three other plays earlier considered for possible production were: "The Zeal of Thy House," "Everyman," and "All for Love...