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ADOLESCENT REBELLION and alcoholism attack family life in the plays of Eugene O'Neill. In his tragedies, they triumph and destroy the family; in Ah, Wilderness, O'Neill's only comedy, love wins out. The family survives all threats in this blissful vision of small-town America. A son goes off for a night of debauchery; the family forgives him. Only fine, three-dimensional acting saves this story of the affectionate Miller family from cloying sweetness...
...population of 12,000, a far cry from the megalopolis of Boston. "I like big cities and I loved Boston," he says, adding that the movies, restaruants and art museums in Carleton are "nothing to write home about." Like most transplanted city dwellers, however, Stanley appreciates the advantages of small-town living. "You can go away and leave the door unlocked," he explains. "The air is just staggering." But, he's quick to add, "too much peace and you die." He and his wife of two years, a former administrative assistant of Harvard's History Department, don't hesitate...
...Lake Placid has no sinister air about it, nor could it have; it is not that kind of place. The opening ceremonies were small-town and goodhearted, vaguely resembling a high school football halftime show with unlikely overreachings in the direction of Super Bowl kitsch. A crowd of 22,000-slightly less than capacity, because some ticket holders were stranded without transportation-gathered in the stands at the old Lake Placid horse-show grounds to meet the athletes. The Canadians, the eighth team to march into the stadium behind their colors, brought a deep roar of thanks and a standing...
Coming from a small-town environment, a fact that earns her considerable amounts of good-natured flack from teammates, Boutillier claims Harvard has been good for her. "I was naive, I guess, and this place really opened my eyes...
...English-educated Californian, writes in a fashion reminiscent of Van Tilburg Clark. His passages about the Mountain West and its mores, unforgiving nature, the meanness of small-town men, the sagacity of an oldtime sheriff, the vulnerability of neglected women, are powerful and occasionally lyrical. Describing the half-dead survivors, he writes: "After a while, the thin sound of two men singing poorly came from a shadow thrown by the moon on a canted field of snow, a thin sound rising up into the mountains that jostled imperceptibly around them. They sang to obscure this awful scale of time; they...