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Moreover, this reinforces the fact that O'Casey's true genius is comic, that his tragedy-save perhaps in The Plough and the Stars-verges on sentimentality or melodrama. It is laughter that really soars in Red Roses, not feeling or poetry. The verbal gifts are there. But too often they miss magic by striving for it, or seem almost to be spoofing the Irish love of words. But where Synge, in The Playboy, could spoof that love and in the very process make prose beautiful, a more reflective O'Casey mingles honest rhythms with gaudy ones...
Dublin expected trouble. A new Sean O'Casey play, The Bishop's Bonfire, was coming to town-and Dublin remembered 1926. That year the Abbey Theater produced O'Casey's since famed The Plough and the Stars, an irreverent treatment of the 1916 Irish revolution. It roused Irish fury to such patriotic heights that shrieking, whistling men and women stampeded for the stage to drag the actors off. Actor Barry Fitzgerald met the first charging patriot with an uppercut that sent him flying back into the stalls. One actress threw her shoe at the attackers...
Personal Label. They had reason to expect fireworks. After the riotous premiere of The Plough, O'Casey crossed the Irish Sea to settle in England, and since then a lot of damns have flowed over the water. He has tilted with eloquence and venom at many an Irish figure and foible in his plays and in the massive six-volume autobiography poured out over the past 15 years (TIME, Nov. 15). Ireland banned four of the volumes, but the Irish theater knows no censorship. Arch-Individualist O'Casey was free last week to speak his unconventional piece from...
...well, Author Baron describes Cortés as a Byron turning Napoleonic, as a would-be servant of God becoming the Devil's disciple, slaughtering some 250,000 Aztecs in the famed siege of Tenochtitlan. Remembered for a superior World War II novel (From the City, from the Plough), Novelist Baron has switched easily from Sten guns to harquebuses, splashes his pages with just the right mixture of bravery and bravura. But beyond that, he captures what few historical novelists even pursue-the moment of impact between two cultures, Western man of the high Renaissance forcing his Faustian will...
Needed is increased non-military help in addition to the present arms aid. Chester Bowles' experience in India demonstrated that best results in a technical aid program do not come with blatant give-away campaigns. More good was accomplished by the introduction of a ten-dollar modern plough than by a thousand dollars of free rice. And this is the policy that America should follow in Indo-China, as well as in other countries in like situations. The U.S. should attempt to maintain good will among the citizens of Indo-China by convincing them that America is interested in their...