Word: playfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Strindberg is the forebear of O'Neill, Ibsen is the inspiration of Arthur Miller. Convinced that "a new production of the play on the tradition basis would truly bury Ibsen for good" Miller has made an adaptation of Enemy of the People that strips away much of the pedanty and Victorianism of the play. Yet the injection of the Miller touch and the attempt to up-date the speech and action undercuts some of the play's force and argumentative strength...
...curly-haired 20th century editor is at his best when his true yellow colors are flying; his bourgeois publisher, superbly acted by Al Sperduto, epitomizes the egoistic middle-class man of moderation. The result of the audience's foreknowledge of failure is a tremendous irony that fills the play and nearly offsets its didacticism...
Wesleyan uses the same general plan of attack as the Crimson, with short passing, good control, and careful shooting. In summation, as varsity coach Bruce Munro said yesterday, the Cardinals play "a good brand of soccer...
Penn roared back, and with everyone expecting a pass on a fourth down play, Quaker quarterback George Koval threw to end Barney Berlinger deep in the end zone from 11 yards...
These non-realistic devices are the key to the success of a play that in the reading registers as an honestly told but unexciting story about ordinary people. They more than compensate for the slight drop in interest during part of the first act, and for the scattered signs of the pseudo-lyricism and pretentiousness that are so annoying in some of Mr. Williams' later plays. It is a rare experience for me to come out of a theatre changed, deeply respectful of the total effort I came to see and of all those who created it. If my gratitude...