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...trailing over his forehead. "I'm in love," he cries. "And the girl's a whore." Character Wylie, whose air of learned sang froid is notable throughout the novel, takes one look at the girl, name of Marcia, and makes another fast diagnosis: she is a raving nymphomaniac and wholly unsuited to a career of nuclear research...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Degeneration of Vipers | 5/23/1949 | See Source »

...Streetcar Named Desire. Tennessee Williams' vivid chronicle of a nymphomaniac's downhill flight from reality (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Best Bets on Broadway, Apr. 25, 1949 | 4/25/1949 | See Source »

...Streetcar Named Desire. Tennessee Williams' vivid chronicle of a nymphomaniac's downhill flight from reality (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Best Bets on Broadway, Nov. 29, 1948 | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

...Streetcar Named Desire. Tennessee Williams' sharply vivid chronicle of a nymphomaniac's downhill flight from reality (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Best Bets on Broadway, Mar. 15, 1948 | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

...Streetcar Named Desire* shows a Southern neurotic on the last lap of a downhill journey. Massed behind Blanche Du Bois are the genteel decay of her small-town forebears, the sudden suicide of her homosexual husband, the soiled annals of her nymphomaniac whoring, the loss of her reputation, her job and her home. Unable to face the truth, she has fashioned a dream world in which she is highbred, sought after and straitlaced. Her dream is her main luggage when she arrives destitute in New Orleans to "visit" her sister Stella and Stella's roughneck Polish-American husband Stanley...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Dec. 15, 1947 | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

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