Word: lovelies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Linda Goodman's Love Signs, Goodman
...characters either know instinctively or must be taught that life is real, earnest and achingly impermanent. As a consequence, Malamud's career has earned him awards and formidable respect but produced little dancing in the streets. He is an author easy to admire and hard to love...
...Subjectivity sickens me," he tells him self. "I fear myself fearing." Unexpectedly, Fanny reappears, offering what looks like genuine love. Dubin accepts, but with fewer illusions. His problem will remain because it is his inescapable condition: he is a man facing 60 who can take from life more easily than he can give...
...TRAGEDY, according to Yellen, is that Sinclair Lewis and Dorothy Thompson, two brilliant writers and decent, caring human beings, were unable to know each other, to love each other. He attempts to explain Lewis' problem in the final scene, where Dern, who has gotten drunk and become violent, sits strapped in a straitjacket and launches into a lengthy monologue as Lewis's father, revealing the old man's perpetual dissatisfaction with his son. The speech should be a tour-de-force--Dern does a beautiful job with it--but it is so empty in concept, so obvious in construction, that...
...write amusing dialogue, but the jokes rarely have anything to do with the characters, and most of the "meaningful" lines are slick and stilted: "You drink to be more than yourself, but it only makes you so much less than you are," "I don't know how to love," etc. The play never casts light or the writing of Sinclair Lewis, and the characters are not sufficiently human or interesting enough to survive without the glamorous names. There's nothing inherently "dramatic" in Strangers except that the two leading characters talk a lot and the rapid flow of scenes...