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...most creative new play was British Writer Enid Bagnold's witty, elegantly savage The Chalk Garden. Even more finely tempered was Tiger at the Gates, Jean Giraudoux's humanely ironic lament for the Trojan and all subsequent wars. Audiences might argue whether Samuel Beckett's puzzling, plotless Waiting for Godot was profound art or a mere philosophic quiz show; less arguable was the neatness of its writing, the desolation of its mood. In Lillian Hellman's sharp adaptation, Jean Anouilh's The Lark proved a lively stage piece; under Tyrone Guthrie's vivid direction...
Under the Bed. Author Chevallier is obviously out for a fictional romp, and even people who deplore his easy tolerance can enjoy his plotless prattle. Marcel Aymé, as able a writer as any in France, is no more inclined to scold sinners, but his tightly plotted yarn is a more sardonic, more pointed comment on the human comedy. The Green Mare has some of the quality of a fable, as well as some of the inescapable judgment of life that every good fable offers. In the farm town of Claquebue most human feelings and actions are taken coolly...
Died. Gustave Stubbs Lobrano, 53, who as The New Yorker magazine's managing editor for fiction since 1941 did much to set the tone and style of the plotless "New Yorker story"; following an operation; in Chappaqua...
Zorba the Greek resists easy definition. Like the Odyssey and Don Quixote, it is nearly plotless but never pointless. Like the heroes of those fictional sagas, its hero, Alexis Zorba, casts a larger shadow on the world than the world does...
MacLeish was right. Though almost plotless and seldom dramatic, Stephania is a mature study of life in a hospital for the handicapped. Stephania, her body tortured by the Nazis and her mind churning with memories of horror, upsets the placid routine of the two other patients in Room No. 5. Desperately intent on having her crippled body reshaped, she has neither understanding nor sympathy for the resignation of the paralyticThura or the gross self-indulgence of Fröken Nilsson, who has overeaten to the point where her broken leg cannot support her porcine body...