Word: oure
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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In our universities, a basic idea of democracy, "that truth will emerge victorious in a free contest of ideas," takes the form of "the distilled voodoo of academic freedom," Buckley, who is author of God and Man at Yale, continued. Universities do not take sides, because the acceptance of truth...
"It might be argued," wrote Donald Malcolm, reviewing the Circle in the Square production, that Our Town is not a play at all, but a novel galvanized!" Taking over the function of a novel's omniscient narrator, Wilder's Stage Manager, the instrument by which he creates the largely invisible...
Feeling that the plays of his day "tried to capture verisimilitude, not reality," Wilder set out to write plays that would exist against the largest dimensions of time and space. Our Town solves the problems of stagecraft by avoiding them. "There's some scenery for those who think they have...
Our Town's first act survives largely because of audience interest and trust in the Yankee ingenuity of the Stage Manager. One believes that there is a "real" town, which he is groping to describe, and one is willing to forgive the pedantic local professor who gives the geological facts...
Our Town and the Charles Playhouse production of it perform the difficult artistic trick of dealing with sentimental subjects without being sentimental. And the Charles Playhouse, with its Grange Hall intimacy and its large, informal stage extending out into the audience is truly an ideal setting for this most American...