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Tennis: 33 (Last singles--'1915, G.C. Cancer; last doubles--1916, J.B. Fenno and E.W. Feibleman...
Tiger Tiger Burning Bright, by Peter S. Feibleman, is a little like a Negro Glass Menagerie. The widowed mother (Claudia McNeil) is a ferocious matriarch with a personality as forbidding as a medieval fortress. She has ringed her brood with a moat of make-believe, fearfully shielding them from the outside world. Her daughter (Ellen Holly) is retreating into a tormenting mental twilight of blinding headaches...
Tiger is a play of fumbled possibilities. It is a mordant reflection on a Negro mother to say that her highest hope for a son is a good death rather than a good life, and an acid play might have come of it. Playwright Feibleman opaquely implies that the Negro in the U.S. lives in a state of siege and self-corroding stratagems. But he has carried understatement to the point of no comment. He is so leery of the false premise that color affects everything that, as a matter of stage fact, he is trapped into arguing the equally...
...ringings, and the Debating Council decided to stage a mock trial of Adolph Hitler. A bench of five professors, includling Raphael Demos and Arthur N. Holcombe, heard undergraduates argue pro and con on the German leader and then found him guilty on two out of four charged counts. Charles Feibleman '37 was one of the prosecutors, while two more of his classmates, Thomas H. Quinn '37 and Arthur G. Sullivan '37, supported Chancellor Hitler's defense. Quinn, Sullivan, and company were unable to save Hitler from sentences for killing a man without trial and for imprisoning citizens without evidence...
Coming after 29-year-old Author Feibleman's exceptional first novel, A Place Without Twilight (TIME, March 3, 1958), the new book is a disappointment. But for all its melodrama and its occasional flavor of Charles Addams under the magnolias, it is still well worth reading. Feibleman is a fine stylist who almost never gets his hands sticky. He sees people shrewdly, and can set down small scenes with great poignancy. The episode that ends the book is a masterpiece-even though it parodies the whole novel and the entire Southern school of literary fungus munchers. After the hero...