Word: often
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Patchen is a big boy now, 47 years old, and one's initial reaction is to remark that the fellow still hasn't grown up. His work is formless, often maudlin, sometimes downright silly. Yet amongst his poems (and he is, or has been, a very prolific writer) are flashes of humor and even insight that make leafing through this newest volume a not wholly unrewarding hour...
...than too little. By trying too hard to be epic, the director misses small and thoughtful values Novel staging and the like is to be commended but it can't stand by itself. The presentation seems to lack a unifying mind behind it. Thus the actors seem all too often as if they were emoting for their own benefit, rather than reaching for a sense of action and reaction which would make the play come to life...
...addition he has not paced the show very well. The wedding scene seems rushed and clumsy, the lyric recitation forced, pompous and overlong. His blocking, i.e., plotting of the actors' movements, seems often unhappy and imperceptive, but he suffers from the disadvantage of a very small acting area...
...officials. He has a chance of being deported as undesirable, but whether he is forced out of the country or actually gets into politics, society cannot simply dismiss him. What he represents has always been a danger to democracy. In meeting the danger in the open, free men have often found their greatest strength...
...other end of the price range stands Piper, now run largely by the three sons of President Bill Piper. A successful oilman who made his stake in the early Pennsylvania fields, Bill Piper Sr. started business in 1929 and, like his colleagues, often wished, as he almost went broke, that "I'd never gotten into this aviation business." Yet today, with three modern versions of its Cub plus its $34,990 twin-engined Apache, Piper is solidly in the black and ready to expand...