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...moral position. True, he did adopt a quasi-realistic diction with its illogicalities, its wandering directions, its repetitions; but he was skillful enough to infuse it with a marvelous rhythm and a sort of poetic evocativeness. (This technique strongly affected the plays of our own O'Neill, Odets, and Hellman.) The director and the players--and, indeed, the audience-- must be able to catch unspecified implications, to apprehend not so much what is said as what is consciously or subconsciously thought and not said. In addition, Chekhov has woven a host of verbal and tangible symbols into his texture, which...
...Unfinished Woman, Hellman...
...Peter Principle, Peter and Hull (4) 2. Ernest Hemingway, Baker (2) 3. The Kingdom and the Power, Talese (6) 4. Jennie, Martin (1) 5. Between Parent and Teenager, Ginott (3) 6. The 900 Days, Salisbury (5) 7. An Unfinished Woman, Hellman 8. Robert Kennedy: A Memoir, Newfield 9. The Money Game, 'Adam Smith' (10) 10. The Arms of Krupp, Manchester...
Geoffrey P. Hellman, GSAS, suggested that Administration policy might be to build up a fear of major punishment and then "take a lot of wind out of our action" by being more lenient. "The overall effect would be at least as bad in terms of intimidation," he said...
...Lillian Hellman's rebuke to George Kennan after he bemoaned the irresponsibility and nihilism of youth had the same effect. Abandoning rhetoric and argument, Hellman recalled talking with Kennan in a European cafe decades before. "We've had so many common experiences," she said. "How come we feel so differently about youth?" The reproach was simple, emotional and electric...