Word: sklar
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...George Sklar was a playwright of the 1930's; more correctly, George Sklar is a playwright of the 1930's, the only problem being that his latest work seems to have been aged for three decades. Topically And People All Around is as recent as the Summer 1964 civil rights murder. Dramatically it is as old as Clifford Odets, the Federal Theatre Project, and the flood...
...Sklar wrote his last play in 1946 and swore he'd never write another. But, says the program, he found the subject so provocative ("it simply demanded this form") that he set to work dramatizing the murders of Andrew Goodman, James Chaney and Michael Schwerner...
Actually his play deals with the dilemma of a Southern white moderate who has witnessed the murders and goes into a Hamlet-like state of indecision about whether or not to tell anyone. Don Tindall, Sklar's Hamlet, is in love with Jean Portugal, a COFO girl from the North. With this premise And People All Around cannot avoid being yet another treatment of the predicament of the uncommited white man. Not that everything has already been said on this matter, but coming from such an obviously committed individual as Mr. Sklar, his play seems to have an excessively moderate...
...Radcliffe recipients are: Damaris Ames, Susan M. Billings, Mrs. Margery K. Cameron, Cynthia A. Conwell, Carolyn R. Fawcett, Leigh I. Friedman, Michal A. Goldman, Susan E. Hand, Mrs. Ann F. Henderson, Alice L. Mattice, Susan E. Milmoe, Joan A. Newlon, Penelope B. Reed, Mrs. Kathryn K. Sklar, Mrs. Dina R. Spechler, and Olga Verhovskoy...
...Moors Hall and Pasadena, Calif. (History and Literature); Donna A. Isaacs, of Cabot Hall and New York City (History and Literature); Jane Kurshan, of Gould House and Huntington, N. Y. (Germanic Languages and Literatures); Juliet Rapaport, of 54 Concord Ave. and Stockbridge, Mass. (Social Relations); and Kathryn K. Sklar, of Cambridge (History and Literature...