Word: grasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Truman Capote's stage adaptation of his novel, The Grass Harp, is a curious fusion of poetic sensitivity and imperfect theatrical technique. Clearly, Mr. Capote was hampered at the outset by the limited number of ways in which one can write a play. He had a quixotic plot and a tragic theme to work with, and inexplicably be chose straight comedy for his dramatic medium. Regrettably his continual resort to stock comic artifices detracts greatly from the important thematic development of the play...
...story of The Grass Harp revolves around an emotional conflict between two middle aged spinsters, the Misses Dolly and Varena Talbo, who live in a small town with her nephew. Dolly discovers that her domineering sister wants to exploit a secret Dropsy cure that she had discovered, and she promptly bundles off her nephew and the cook to a tree house in a nearby forest...
Palm trees, flamingoes, and green grass were conspicuously absent yesterday, but nearly 70 men showed up at Briggs Cage anyway to launch the northern equivalent of spring training for the varsity and freshman baseball teams. A large portion of the first practice of the year was devoted to hitting, with both squads taking their cuts against the batting machine and "live" hurlers...
...best examples of the cyclical theory of history. It is unfortunate however that destiny has never allowed the Common to become more than a dust-bowl. One writer of local history has suggested that the next monument be "not of marble or bronze but good, stubborn grass seed...
...York Times reporter asked Author Truman (The Grass Harp) Capote, 27, to describe himself. Said Capote: "Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy. I think I have rather heated eyes ... I have a very sassy voice. I like my nose . . . Do you want to know the real reason why I push my hair down on my forehead? Because I have two cowlicks. If I didn't push my hair forward, it would make me look as though I had two feathery horns." What about the charge that present-day fiction is decadent...