Word: exits
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Square like those rubbish-flakes; and you can step on them as if they were rubbish, and your only fear is that they'll dirty your sneakers; don't you feel the power in you, don't you see the night is a gigantic stage where you enter and exit players you, yourself, have molded, without another director in the universe...
...reach the Bowl from the Eli campus, go out Chapel St. and turn north on Derby Ave. To reach it from the Merritt Parkway, turn south along Derby Ave. (exit 57) and follow it to the Bowl...
Down on the ground floor the thick mat of folding chairs filled up, to the dull impendent drone of the devoted. Pushing, shoving, and other forms of creative expression were constrained by the blue propriety of the Boston police force--on sentry duty at each exit. Above, arc lights were attached to steel girders. Below, red flags and colored paper draped a stage of white wood slats...
Enter Senary; Exit Mayer. But even Mayer turned out to be vulnerable. In 1948 he startled Hollywood by handing over production of M-G-M films to onetime Scriptwriter Dore Schary. The two soon clashed over the proper themes for the studio's pictures. Finally the old man quit MGM, talked vaguely of again making pictures that "you can take your mother and children...
...first act's very power of assault gives to what follows a diminished impact. But what follows has also too little organic development. The play never really advances from a kind of one-man show to any kind of social drama. To be sure, a negativist, no-exit attitude that shies away from moral crisis cannot develop very far; while at the same time so much overt anger must shut the door on irony. Having shown how angry Jimmy can be, the play chiefly thereafter shows how personally irresistible he is. Perhaps a little concentration on human plight would...