Word: passionate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mess out of it. It opened without fanfare but to unanimous approval for its quiet and amusing story-that of a girl who, for the sake of getting things to write about, got herself a lover, and of the lover who regarded his good fortune as a grand passion. Alexander Carr, onetime half of "Potash and Perlmutter," gargled glib dialect as a Hebrew theatrical producer who instigated and later encouraged the literary liaison. Mary Carroll was the girl...
...once betrayed and since forgotten, visited him. The purpose of her visit was to ask that Robert be permitted to live with his father and learn the ways of the world-in which there could have been no better tutor than Albert. Lamentably, however, Robert stuttered with uncouth passion to his father's mistress, who was intrigued but not delighted by his arrival in company with his mother. When he became aware of his father's relations with lisa Von Ilsa, Robert clutched his mother and they went back to the country together. Albert Von Echardt was sorry...
...Well, perhaps you could hardly call it poetry. I mean a Harvard man wouldn't. There's a Princeton fellow who teaches sloyd at the camp on the other side of the lake, and he said that the lines were so filled with--well, he named it right out--passion, that they fairly seethed. Seethed. Well (No, thanks awfully, I'm quite comfortable just here, this way), I admit I had sometimes thought of myself that...
...made my point"-time-honored prescription for effective exposition. No such precepts trammel Thornton Wilder, apparently indifferent to getting his point across. Says he in a luminous foreword to 16 playlets, "I have composed some forty of these plays, for I had discovered a literary form that satisfied my passion for compression. Since the time when I began to read I had become aware of the needless repetition, the complacency in most writing." The form he discovered requires but three minutes and three characters to refute a theory of faith without reason
...substituting more ardent gestures he would not have made the situation more compelling. The time of the piece is "the seventies." The troubles of the characters in it are not rendered artificial by the artificialities of its expression, and the graces of a graceful era are retained. Watching the passion and despair of these costumed people, you smile at first and then realize suddenly that though they look strange their feelings are familiar...