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...occasion of his 100th anniversary, O'Neill's revolutionary accomplishments are nowhere questioned, certainly not in the land of his birth. But the continued vibrancy of his plays -- their ability in performance to command the attendance and attention of a live audience -- has become a matter of some dispute. The centenary has, to be sure, sparked revivals of some of his works by theater groups across the country. But a mere handful of his 50 plays are now resurrected for the theater with any regularity. And of this small sample, which includes Ah, Wilderness! and The Iceman Cometh, only...
...truth, O'Neill's reputation has moved steadily away from the footlights toward reading lamps, a process that began during his lifetime. That, at least, is one of many conclusions to be drawn from Selected Letters of Eugene O'Neill (Yale University; 602 pages; $35). Editors Travis Bogard and Jackson R. Bryer have chosen 560 examples, some published for the first time, of the roughly 3,000 surviving O'Neill letters. The result is a fragmented but fascinating autobiography that shows its subject growing disillusioned with the theater even while he was furiously engaged in expanding its possibilities...
Lange only inhabits her films; she doesn't write or direct them. Shepard assumed those two tasks in Far North and distinguished himself in neither. The plot is as old as Antigone, the emotional temperature as wintry as Ingmar Bergman's, the conflict as scabrous as any Eugene O'Neill family flaying. And yet the movie unravels as if it were an anguished parody of Shepard's own play A Lie of the Mind. He lured Lange and a cast of fine actors to Duluth, then stranded them on a back road halfway between Hysteria and Catatonia. Virtually every character...
BOOKS: New views of Eugene O' Neill' s long journey
...goodness," was so taken with his campaign achievement, narrow though it was, that he tried it with arms control, springing a plan for huge cuts on the Soviets. He offended the Kremlin with his arrogance and lost precious years in arms control. Had Reagan heeded Speaker Tip O'Neill's plea to meet him partway and moderate the deep tax cuts of 1981, the deficits and debt might not now threaten Reagan's place in the history books...