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...ALFRED KAZIN WILLIAM PHILLIPS
Often the Marquand hero does not try to break out but to break in. He is the middle-aged American who is fighting, says Alfred Kazin, "not for freedom from convention, as George Apley did, but for conventions-standards of belief and behavior-that will allow him to function as a human being in a world where beliefs are shared.1' He is troubled by the materialist itch of American life, whether he is Charley Gray, the nice poor boy who wants to be a nice rich man but still plays by the rules, or Willis Wayde, who has torn...
...Thank you so very much for printing Mr. Kazin's criticism of the psychological rubbish invading Broadway, the movies and current literature. Once again I feel like a normal human being rather than an illiterate simply because I refuse to expose myself to this form of "dehumanism and degeneration." That article alone will result in a renewal of my subscription to TIME...
...Sick of Sick Sir: It was with great relief that I read Alfred Kazin's profoundly meaningful and beautiful observations on today's theater and today's thinking [June 6]. He speaks for all of us who are sick, sick, sick of the degradation, the amorality, the absolute horror of the theater today and the stinking emotional climate which surrounds it. We are mostly sick of Tennessee Williams and those who trail gleefully after him. If man has nothing more to say about himself than that he is doomed-why bother? MURIEL MONTEKIO New York City...
...Kazin, alas, has grown "tired of love and love and love." In truth it seems Mr. Kazin has simply grown tired. When an established critic tires he falls to attacking live authors (Williams) and quoting dead authors (Mann). Mr. Kazin wants dramatists to reflect "the enlarged voice of our human possibilities." It has always seemed to me that Tennessee Williams has spent a good deal of time in his plays pointing out that this voice has been slashed at the vocal cords in today's world. We may expect to hear more of Mr. Kazin: speeches before the D.A.R...