Word: shaper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...theater. His plays beat with the heart's blood of the drama: passion. He is the greatest U.S. playwright since Eugene O'Neill, and barring the aged Sean O'Casey, the greatest living playwright anywhere. Dissenting voices might be raised for a thoughtful and clever shaper of ideas like Jean Anouilh. Yet the 20th century's three greatest playwrights as thinkers-Shaw, Brecht and Pirandello-succeeded less because they brought ideas into the theater than because they squeezed every last drop of passion out of those ideas...
...spirit of history that so moves him, Kennedy last week, on the 105th anniversary of Woodrow Wilson's birth, hailed the 28th U.S. President as the "shaper of the first working plan for international cooperation among all peoples of the world. 'What we seek,' Wilson said, 'is the reign of law, based upon the consent of the governed and sustained by the organized opinion of mankind.' Every subsequent effort to create a stable world order has gone back for inspiration to his efforts and has owed much to his vision." The Wilson papers now being...
Died. Eero Saarinen, 51, bold shaper of modern architecture; of a brain tumor; in Ann Arbor, Mich...