Word: misses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enchanted, as well as relieved, by your assurance that Miss Judith Anderson has never considered "playing Medea naked from the waist up (as Euripides intended)" [TIME, Oct. 25], but I wish that you had given us your source of information as to Euripides' intentions. Since his Medea was played by a husky male whose head was encased in the huge mask-apparatus, whose stature was increased by the kothornos, and whose hieratic vestments excluded any suggestion or realism, it is difficult to imagine-except in terms of Salvador Dali-the effect which you suggest...
...consideration of her letter, a profound scarch of my own soul, and deep thought about the nature of the universe, I have decided that there is but one course for a man of conscience and honesty to take. But being what I am, I can't face asking Miss Handy to take over my job starting Monday morning at 9 o'clock. Instead, I'll make a base compromise and say that her letter is completely, unequivocally right...
...main point is that "Mr. Raphaelson's criterion 'easy to follow' applies best to the funny papers," which is so. It is also true that this standard led to some flippancy that Miss Handy points out, and to a false judgment of her own poem "Narcissus," which she does not point out, but which I hereby correct by announcing that in my chastened opinion, reached after a re-reading, "Narcissus" is a fine poem, in spite of the confusing punctuation that makes it seem harder to follow than...
...took the trouble to write is as simply and clearly as he could. Now if you happen to be James Joyce, and what you have to say is very special, then even the clearest way of saying it may not be at all easy to follow. The difficulty in Miss Handy's poem--which is its punctuaton--I now think to be this sort of necessary difficulty. But I will bet that Joyce and Miss Handy wrote as simply as their subjects permitted them to write; and I will state as a fact that most of the people writing...
...Miss Handy, as a staff-member of Signature, is at least partly responsible for the material the magazine runs. I suggest that she ponder the paradox of stories being harder to follow than Dick Tracy when they have less substance, which is often the case. And if she can go on from there to make the stories that do have substance as easy to follow as their content allows, instead of the opposite, Signature will become worth reading, and people will begin to buy it. Just the way they buy the funny-papers. Or Hamlet...