Word: idiot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...current Theatre Guild production and Pulitzer prize play-Idiot's Delight by Robert Sherwood-is a satire on (1 war, fascism and nationalism, 2 the New Deal, 3 Hollywood, 4 big business in America, 5 the Townsend Plan...
Other Pulitzer awards announced last night went to H.L. Davis for "Honey in the Horn," the best American novel, and to Robert Sherwood for his play "Idiot's Delight...
...Sherwood's views on world politics approximate those of a great body of contemporary writing men who habitually seek from their hearts instead of their heads the answers to pregnant questions arising outside their profession. As stated in the postscript, the lesson contained in Idiot's Delight is that ''by refusing to imitate the Fascists in their . . . hysterical self-worship and psychopathic hatred of others, we may achieve the enjoyment of peaceful life on earth rather than degraded death in the cellar." Happily, the solemn depths of this shopworn text are instinctively bridged by Mr. Sherwood...
...interned travelers break out their national colors. For some unindicated reason, the hoofer and the Russian girl remain critically aloof from the passions of nationalism. However, in an emotional outburst which turns her protector toward more sympathetic arms. Irene looks Heavenward, declares: "Poor, dear God! Playing Idiot's Delight. The game that never means anything and never ends...
...Habsburg was rushed out of Austria in Reunion in Vienna (1931), he was vouchsafed an evening with his old girl, Elena. In The Petrified Forest (1935), Public Enemy Duke Mantee killed Alan Squier before he had done much more than nuzzle Gabrielle. What happens to Harry and Irene in Idiot's Delight is somewhat hazy, but it looks like immediate extinction for both...