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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whatever its resemblances to Williams' other plays, the play he meant to write in Slimmer and Smoke is easy to approve of. The only trouble is, he has not written it. It remains only a lucid diagram. Summer and Smoke has moments of sad, sharp insight, but little coherence and intensity as a whole. The reason is partly structural. In none of his plays has Tennessee Williams made a classic frontal assault on drama. Writing episodically, with tricks of stagecraft and a crutchlike use of offstage music, he has always trusted to a vague sense of poetry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Oct. 18, 1948 | 10/18/1948 | See Source »

...play does not lack insight, but its real allegiance is to the footlights, with their richer-than-life diet of emotions. As Holt, indeed, Actor Morley sinks his teeth into the role as though it were an ear of corn dripping with butter-which, theatrically, it is. As Holt's wife, Actress Ash-croft-turning from a happy young mother into a blotchy old drunk-has a fat acting part too; but for brief seconds here & there, she is so good that she gives it the pinched look of tragedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Oct. 11, 1948 | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

Starring Rita Hayworth in the "Loves of Carmen," was a stroke of genius. Filming it in technicolor was another flash of insight. The plot, the scenery and the music made a fine background...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "The Loves of Carmen" | 10/7/1948 | See Source »

...handshake, a venomous temper and the general bearing of a small-town pool-hall operator. Crowds bother him and he cannot hide a furtive wariness when job seekers approach him. He is a dedicated horseplayer-who makes two dollar bets. But he has the "Long Look" and a shrewd insight into the mind of Louisiana's tobacco-chewing common...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LOUISIANA: The Winnfield Frog | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

...What gives these sentiments interest is that behind them is Jeffers' one great, violent insight into the nature of things-an insight that has kept him going as a poet for 20 years, has formed his famous style, and made him a faintly theatrical, gloom-wrapped figure in U.S. poetry. He describes this insight as "a certain philosophical attitude, which might be called Inhumanism, a shifting of emphasis and significance from man to not-man; the rejection of human solipsism and recognition of the transhuman magnificence...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: And Buckets 01 Blood | 8/2/1948 | See Source »

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