Word: thinker
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...uneven, and much of his work has not worn well-the prostitutes with hearts of gold, the barroom philosophers marinated in Nietzsche, the neoclassical alas-and-alackers of his Greek-facade tragedies. In experiments like The Great God Brown, O'Neill aspired to be the playwright-as-thinker and failed. It was with the family that he could do almost nothing right in life and almost nothing wrong in the theater. In Long Day's Journey into Night-not only O'Neill's best play but the best play in the history of the American theater...
...congenial bar off lower Park Avenue, there lurks a band of renegades who at this very moment are plotting an outrageous assault on the time-honored traditions of gentlemen's journalism." The ad also quotes Breslin's encomium on his colleagues: "There's not a thinker in the crowd...
...late '30s, much of what Wells had predicted had come true. A world already in future shock either forgot him or patronized him. Cruelly, Lytton Strachey snobbishly noted: "I stopped thinking about Wells the moment he became a thinker." Not everyone did, however. As late as 1969, Michael Crichton took the basic gimmick from The War of the Worlds and turned it into the bestseller The Andromeda Strain. For millions of people, one Wellsian prediction, as headlined in the New York American in 1933, has yet to lose its Chill: H.G. WELLS VISIONS THE ENTIRE WORLD IN THE CLUTCHES...
...plot that is little more than a simple, formal dance of death must be well served in the telling. McGuane brings powers of concentration to writing that recall Camus as much as Hemingway. Unlike Camus, McGuane is no thinker, but his Key West is as palpable as the Algiers of The Stranger. His prose shimmers like heat: "Thunderous light fills the city and everyone moves in stately flotation." Ninety-Two in the Shade is the best book yet of a very strong young writer. · Martha Duffy
Jason is no longer the young, virile hero, wandering aimlessly through the Hellenic world so absolutely self-confident. He is a king without a country, a thinker with no outlet for his ideals. His cold, calculating mind obliterates any feelings he might have for Medeia or his two children. Pride and vanity urge him to gain Corinth. Jason has already won Pyripta's hand as Euripides's Medeia begins. But the greatest beauty of Jason and Medeia lies in its concentration on the imaginatively conceived contest for the princess of Corinth (an event which never occurred in ancient versions...