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...case with Ireland's Abbey Theater, now returned to the U.S., at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, for the first time in 38 years and touring on to Boston and Philadelphia. The Plough and the Stars is O'Casey's second-best play; his ineffable masterwork is Juno and the Paycock. This production might well be called The Plough. It is workmanlike but never, for a moment, lyrically incandescent...
...Maureen. Thank God, she can cope with anything, just by being a bundle of nerves," drawled Playwright Tennessee Williams, 61, after watching Maureen Stapleton star in the umpteenth production of his masterwork, The Glass Menagerie. Though Williams criticized...
...almost 40 years, Toynbee developed those same jotted notes into A Study of History, his 3 million-word, twelve-volume masterwork on the rise and fall of civilizations. And when he was done with his originally planned ten volumes, the historian noted the end as precisely as he had noted the beginning: "Finis. London, 1951, June 15,6:25 p.m., after looking once more this afternoon at Fra Angelico's picture of the beatific vision...
Died. Arnold Toynbee, 86, British historian whose twelve-volume masterwork, A Study of History, charts the rise and fall of man's civilizations; in York, England (see EDUCATION...
This long, rueful novel successfully winds up Paul Scott's enormous masterwork, The Raj Quartet, a brooding view of the last years of British rule in India. Together, the four novels of this remarkable cycle-The Jewel in the Crown, The Day of the Scorpion, The Towers of Silence and A Division of the Spoils-are a considerable achievement of art and intelligence...