Word: romanticization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The play had its overwrought romantic egoist of a heroine delving among memories of her father, of the men in her life, and of herself at earlier stages (played by three other actresses who vaguely resembled her).
Because the play contained as much histrionics as history, it supplied Actress Katharine Cornell with a dashingly theatrical vehicle when she first played it on Broadway in 1931. Since then she has revived it twice on Broadway, besides road tours and a TV version. The present movie version is the...
Current & Choice The Rainmaker. Forecast: sunny comedy, with spells of metaphysical drizzle (Burt Lancaster), occasional electric storms (Katharine Hepburn), romantic sunset (TIME, Dec. 31).
Personally, I feel the solution to the "enigma" of this play, or of modern music or painting, lies mainly in one thing: familiarity. No work that gives everything it has to offer on first acquaintance can be a candidate for immortality. People are still arguing about the meaning of Oedipus...
The first two shibboleths are doctrinaire battle cries, but the third is the aim of the economist whose new focus for socialism is to prevent waste in human and material resources and strengthen Britain's economic health. This almost bureaucratic concern for efficiency has occasionally severed Gaitskell from his party...