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Nevertheless, in the cold glance of retrospect, one cannot escape the conclusion that, when the four characters have been laid bare to the innards, they are all nullities in essence. The play is about four nobodies; and this too keeps it from reaching the plateau of O'Neill, for one. Month after month of theatrical mediocrity may be the reason that one critic hailed Albee as "a major dramatist, quite possibly the most important playwright since O'Neill, whom he resembles and, in some respects, betters." O'Neill is not that easily surpassed--but this is not the place...
...Toynbee lectures makes the point that Communism is merely a part of the social revolution that is sweeping the world. "This awakening of hope and purpose in the hearts and minds of the hitherto depressed three-quarters of the world's population," writes Toynbee, "will stand out in retrospect as the epoch-making event of our age. As for the present-day conflict between competing ideologies, this will be as meaningless to our descendants, 300 years from now, as our 16th and 17th century ancestors' wars of religion already...
...begins with your decision to go and, certainly it continues as a sharp memory for the rest of your life. Each man can treat the adventure in retrospect as he wishes, whether that be by philosophizing boasting, or remaining sober about it, for it is, ultimately an extremely individual experience...
...retrospect, Authoress de Beauvoir is as critical of her extended adolescence as anybody could be. "We were like elves," she says, describing her and Sartre's lack of responsibility. In the end, a scrupulous, elfish self-examination is what she mainly has to offer...
...Societe Musicale Independante de Paris presented a concert of chamber music by students of Boulanger. In retrospect, the collection of names on the program is a bit fantastic: Copland, Thomson, Elwell, Antheil, Chanler, Piston (whom Time incidentally, then labelled a "rip-roaring cacaphonist...