Word: lonigan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DIRECTIONS '66 (ABC, 1-1:30 p.m.). "The Tough and Joyful World of James T. Farrell," a dramatized look at the feisty author of Studs Lonigan...
...Diversion. To show how things are, with nothing subtracted for propriety or added for spice, is the sole aim of naturalism, the earnest flat-footed literary school of which Farrell has been perhaps the most determinedly flat-footed U.S. member. His career, beginning with his wildly successful Studs Lonigan trilogy, has been ruled by the naturalistic writers' obsessive need to prove, over and over again, that life is not art. It is a lesson that occasionally needs teaching, and Farrell and such hesitant early experimenters as William Dean Howells cleared away a good deal of literary rubbish by writing...
...begun again to play its proper part in Chicago's vibrant cultural climate. In the past, that climate had nurtured the talents of such innovators as Sullivan, Wright and Mies van der Rohe, Frank Norris (The Octopus), Sherwood Anderson (Winesburg, Ohio), Carl Sandburg, James T. Farrell (Studs Lonigan), and the "Chicago School" of jazz. Today, Chicago is characteristically self-conscious about its "second city'' creativity, even though young people like Shelley Berman. Negro Dick Gregory, Bob Newhart and Nichols & May have all sparked new trends in comedy entertainment and other theatrical forms-notably the cerebral cabaret satire...
...early 1930s, Americans were being saturated with "tough" writing: Studs Lonigan swaggered the streets of Chicago, Hemingway's bulls and men met with grace under pressure, Popeye had his will of Temple Drake, and Erskine Caldwell's degenerates roistered on Tobacco Road. Upon all this hardness, rawness and ache, a volume of stories descended almost like a balm in 1934: The Daring Young Man on the Flying Trapeze, by a young man of 26, William Saroyan. The book was a mixture of love and pity and humor: pity and humor for everyone, especially bums and prostitutes, and love...