Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...general topic of discussion at the meetings this year will be the problem of Social Security. This subject will be divided into three main divisions, Unemployment, Old-age Pensions, and the Cost of Medical Care...
...Pudding Full of Plums" is a slight play; it lacks body. It is a talky play; its action is very limited. On the other hand it has some characters who have reason for being; it has a problem worth consideration, a problem which the playwright solves justifiably and logically, and it has--best of all--dialogue which is nearly always convincing and very often genuinely witty. By Eliot Norton "Boston Post...
Eager has attempted a serious domestic problem hidden in a mass of racy dialogue and superficial cleverness. Mr. John Barnard as an intelligent, mid-western husband could not remake his wife because of her madcap friends. Similarly, Miss Hall could not remake her madcap friends to accept her husband into their hearts. Miss Lois Hall reveals herself coyly as being in that "amusing condition," which should retie the severed bonds but doesn't. Mr. John Flower, whose role consists of a stalk across the stage in the second act with one deep-voiced remark is satisfyingly and gratifyingly manly...
...Littauer has wisely recognized that the best available brains and experience should be brought to bear on the problem. No one could be better qualified than President Dodds, and, moreover, it is a happy instance of collaboration between our endowed universities in a problem in which they have a common interest and obligation...
This young couple's problem of incompatibility has been cleverly handled by Eager, who has brought to the stage a group of gay, interesting characters. They are as much at a loss to understand Ann's serious-minded husband, as poor David is to fathom them...