Word: plays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Today they puts jazz into college and they writes books about what Pete used to play; and they 'civilize' the stuff, but they change it too- 'cause you can't feel the blues from reading no book. And you can't spell Bach with a small 'b' and make Basin St. from it. Not that it ain't music or ain't good-but it's different, and some don't know it. And they tell you what jazz is and what it ought to be and I start to thinking that maybe I gone crazy or had too much...
...play electronic bingo on the daily show, a viewer had to pick a listed phone number and write the five digits out under the letters BINGO. Then each figure was extended downward consecutively for five rows. If a player picked 7-1091, his bingo card would look like this...
Williams is convinced that his own dramas are basically "more concerned with morality than most plays." So far, Tennessee's sessions on the couch have not noticeably lightened or sweetened his work. Title of the next play he has in mind for Broadway: Sweet Bird of Youth. The theme: "The corruption of a young man, the corruption of an older woman, and the corruption of an entire community by a political boss...
...play uses a classic stage form, the brittle conversation piece. In terms of smart brushes and insulting banter, this has its good points; but seldom were a classic action and a classic method so mismated. 'Stage struggles over a will make for melodrama or serious drama, farce or sardonic comedy, for banged fists, shaking fingers or skinny claws-but not for the playfully brandished rapier. Fencing verbally, the brothers sometimes neatly pink each other, even achieve an occasional moral louche. But they use buttoned foils on synthetic flesh. Nor, in place of human drama, is there any real psychological...
...sounds, smells of jungle and sea seem to have penetrated her consciousness. The deep differences between native and white, between servant and master, are effortlessly established as both subtle and decisive. And underneath the light garment of Christianity or Mohammedanism worn by the natives, there is the steadily discernible play of a fundamental superstition...