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Word: smallshots (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1956-1956
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With its lost, disconsolate, straw-clutching outcasts, its bullying and later blinded magnate, its endless rain of symbolic and allegorical smallshot, its scarred and almost sceneryless universe, Waiting for Godot can be most variously interpreted-somewhat after the fashion of the blind men and the elephant. Under Godot's metaphysical counterpane, believing Christian, doubting pessimist, left-winger and existentialist can all find reasons to nestle for warmth. But whether Godot stands for God or simply for man's unconquerable hope, whether Waiting for Godot is a philosophic depth bomb or a theatrical dud, clearly the play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Apr. 30, 1956 | 4/30/1956 | See Source »

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