Word: theater
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...THEATER...
Eight surgeons on four continents have now performed heart transplants, but the one who stepped most prominently last week from under the nonglare lights of his operating theater into the spotlight of world attention was a tall Texan. Denton Arthur Cooley, 47. The mere fact that Dr. Cooley did three heart transplants within five days was a notable achievement. To Cooley himself, this was incidental and to some extent accidental-the timing of transplants depends on having suitable donors and recipients available simultaneously. The operations, says Cooley, are technically less difficult than many other open-heart procedures, of which...
...prize for an American drama. The committee is correct. No American play of the 1967-68 season merited an award. While it may pique national vanity, an esthetic dry spell is no novelty in the long history of drama. The sands of mediocrity have sometimes silted over the theater for 2,000 years-for example, between the titans of Greek tragedy and the genius of Elizabethan England. The lackluster quality of contemporary U.S. playwriting and the dearth of substantial new talent are simply a gap rather than an omen. The conventional and obvious scapegoat is Broadway, but this is pure...
...current plight of American drama reflects attrition of imagination rather than Philistine commercialism. The leading playwrights are faltering or repetitive. Films, TV and advertising have lured away young potential dramatists, thus giving volatile intellectual fashionmongers an excuse to depict the theater as enervating or backward. One barometer of the theatrical weather is the latest work of the best U.S. playwrights. For more than two decades, Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams have dominated the American stage in much the way that Hemingway and Faulkner once dominated the novel. Miller is dramatically the descendant of Ibsen and socioeconomically the child of Marx...
...existence itself, which in their view is stingingly futile, innately unjust and thoroughly absurd. In the future it may be said that they held a broken mirror up to the nature of the age, but for now they have rendered Miller obsolete by altering the central focus of theater from sociology to metaphysics...