Word: forgetfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years we've been taking the same old humor out of the same old bag. We've been polishing it with up to date references; we've been using it, laughing at it and seeing our society as a reflection of it. Through humor we create a stereotype, forget after a while that the stereotype is only a stereotype and begin to take it for the real thing. So all minority groups become in the eyes of the majority the exact image the jokesters turned them into: good natured, easy going Rastus and Mandy, shrewd money loving Ikie and Abie...
...house attendance record was broken during the play's first week. Those of you who are lucky enough to be in New York during the imminent vacation had better make reservations in advance for the best new American play the city has had all season--and I do not forget Tennessee Williams' latest attempt...
...Left today looks back wistfully on the '30's as a time when class consciousness and ideology mattered to Americans, when a genuine American workers' movement seemed possible, and when some of the country's most brilliant minds gladly collaborated with the working class. The Left has tended to forget how much it let the Communists occupy the center of the stage. The villain of Aaron's piece is the American Communist Party, as servile and stupid a group of men as ever tried to engineer a cultural revolution. For, if there is one theme linking his loose collection...
...master of mood. Sometimes it is hot, oppressive, simmering with catastrophe (Streetcar, Cat); at other times it is sad, autumnal, elegiac (Menagerie, Iguana). To achieve it, he uses the full orchestra of theatrical instruments: setting, lighting, music, plus the one impalpable, indispensable gift, the genius for making an audience forget that any other world exists except the one onstage...
...eyes-or is it merely the firelight reflected? Prophetic wisdom flames from his mouth-or is he simply playing the oracle? "Lies are not always evil, nor is the truth always good . . . Blessed are those who believe in something, even if it is nothing . . . You shouldn't forget what you love. The things you love are the things you live...