Word: journey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opinion of, among others, the French Foreign Office, this is the meaning of Khrushchev's sudden pilgrimage to Belgrade in September and Tito's journey to Yalta a few days later. It is now known that at Yalta Tito and the Russians discussed at length the "rehabilitation" of satellite leaders persecuted by Stalin for Titoism. In Poland there was Gomulka, not long out of a jail term for putting his country before his Communism, but courageous, tough and dedicated. In Hungary, the hangman had long since disposed of Rajk, but there was Erno Gero, who might bring...
Through the years Gerald has kept silent, and the secret has paralyzed his career and poisoned his family life. Author Wilson takes his hero on a kind of infernal journey through the circles of deceit in the world-infidelity, envy, avarice, false pride, false piety, malice-before Gerald can face up to the truth about Melpham and himself. The journey is complicated, since Anglo-Saxon Attitudes has as many characters and flashbacks as a deck has cards, and Author Wilson shuffles, reshuffles and deals them in endlessly changing combinations...
Long Day's Journey into Night is probably one of the greatest plays ever to play Boston. With Florence Eldridge and Frederic March pounding tragedy for four hours into every member of the audience, it is truly one of O'Neill's very best. Last performance at the Wilbur...
Long Day's Journey Into Night presents a big problem. Big, because the play is long--four acts and four hours long. A problem, because as the posthumous work of Eugene O'Neill, the acknowledged "Great American Playwright," it merits serious consideration as a major dramatic event almost irrespective of what is faults as an individual work...
...certainly Journey abounds with little faults. For one thing, the element of dramatic construction is almost completely lacking. When O'Neill wants to get a character off stage for any reason, the character just leaves, with nothing said about why he should. For another, the language is often pedestrian, particularly in those places when it is meant to soar as poetry. Yet these shortcomings pale nearly into insignificance in the light of the playwright's grand intention, which is at once to write a genuine tragedy and also to explain how his tragic view of life grew...