Word: misses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that mean the denial of patronage to Dixiecrats? Let's wait, the President said, and see how the thing works out. In one respect it had worked already; Truman had passed up crusty old John Rankin's man for postmaster in Columbus, Miss. There was nothing to be gained by buttering up Rabble-rouser Rankin...
...publisher's blurb, Shirley Jackson, whose recent New Yorker stories have been grouped in "The Lottery," is a practicing amateur witch. This is surprisingly easy to believe. For some of her stories manage to conjure up black magic that would have been extremely self-satisfying to any of Miss Jackson's late Salem forerunners...
...sharp photographic action--glaringly-lit scenes into which the reader is lowered like a sound-stage camera on its boom, allowed to look on for a few minutes, and then abruptly lifted out again--terse dialogue and quick images. The people in the stories are finely brushed-in, and Miss Jackson knows how to use children to mirror the inadequacies of her adults. But these features are neither necessarily good in themselves nor Miss Jackson's particular property (though she works very well with them.) It is the title story, far from her usual pattern, which makes "The Lottery...
...Yorker a record bundle of letters when the story first appeared last summer. The plot is an inordinately simple one, set in a narrow New England town; revealing it would tip one of the most persistently puzzling stories that has turned up in quite a while. Miss Jackson nimbly precipitates a commonplace situation into quiet mystery, then active horror. "The Lottery" is an allegory, and a fine one: it cuts too close to the heart of people and their customs to be anything much else. You can also take it as a straight dose of hair-trigger shock...
...Ariel of Jan Farrand is always light, and gay, as "it" should be. Miss Farrand is wise and nimble, and keeps within her character except one time when she briefly impersonated the goddess Ceres. Her Ariel is as pleasant as her zephyr-like voice. Ferdinand and Miranda, the ideal lovers, are ideally cast and suitably played by Miles Morgan and Naomi Raphaelson. Miss Raphaelson is particularly fetching, though her voice does not carry as it should, mainly through her voice does not carry as it should, mainly through her own weak projection. The Gonzale of Donald Stevens was well done...