Word: hartman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...violence, from the night-riders to the country court house, may be unwilling to capitulate to non-violent, legalistic means. The whole question may finally be reduced to the words of Byron quoted by W.E.B. DuBois: "Know ye not/Who would be free themselves must strike the blow?" John J. Hartman...
...Stuart Hughes, professor of History, William Hefner, defeated Democratic candidate for Congress in the first district, Elizabeth Boardman, who came close to winning last year's Republican Congressional nomination in the third district, and the following members-at-large: Crosby Forbes '50; Jerome Grossman '38 (Hughes' campaign manager); Chester Hartman '57; Mrs. Mark deWolfe Howe; the Rev. John Paul Jones; Everett Mendelsohn, assistant professor of the History of Science; Suzanne Metzger; Martin Peretz, teaching fellow in Government; Sumner M. Rosen '48; and Stephen Thernstrom, instructor in History and Literature...
...central figure, Woody Hartman, gives Sydney Chaplin little to work with. On his 40th birthday Woody has misgivings about the value of his life and viability of his marriage. But how does he express the fact that he hates going through the middle-class motions? By second thoughts about his Great Neck home. The author uses this technique-characterization by telling reference--to the point of inanity...
Meanwhile, back on Madison Avenue, Weiner's play hints at social commentary, it hints at some real exploration of its characters; it hints at many dramatic statements and then shies off. The tension in Woody Hartman's life is finally between personal sacrifice and personal gratification; a divorce and an affair; a business coup and a business risk. The sense of life that Woody talks about when he reaches 40 disappears from our sight...too bad. One wife or another is not made to seem very important, actually. By an irony the play emphasizes the financial index of success: precisely...
Weiner uses this technique-characterization by telling reference-to the point of inanity. The mention of Spain, a comment such as "once I thought Socialism was the answer," serve to stereotype, but never to clarify. One never really learns what Woody Hartman's problem is. On his 40th birthday he says he has misgivings about the value of his life and the viability of his marriage. But how does he express the fact that he hates going through the middle-class motions? By second thoughts about his Great Neck home...