Word: thorntons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seemed to have trouble deciding in what direction his basic current flowed. It seemed to dazzle the audience, however, since the Repertoire Workshop's ballet scored higher ratings than its competition. NBC's The Virginian and ABC's Wagon Train. Philadelphia showed young actors in Thornton Wilder's Pullman Car Hiawatha. Two Chicago housewives-whose principal credits are six children-contributed a short play to Chicago's WBBM-TV about how difficult it was to kill the monk Rasputin. Actor Val Bettin was a triumph of holy lechery with a soft ten-inch beard around...
...favorite Midcult writers include Pearl Buck, John Steinbeck, JP. Marquand, Archibald MacLeish, and even Ernest Hemingway, or at least much of his writing. His prize examples of Midcult are James Gould Cozzens' novel By Love Possessed, with its convoluted prose and jawbreaking Latinisms like "solemnization" and "presbyopic," and Thornton Wilder's Our Town, with its fuzzy philosophizing: "There's something way down deep that's eternal about every human being." Writes Macdonald: "This is an eleven-word summary, in form and content, of Midcult. I agree with everything Mr. Wilder says, but I will fight...
...Republican Governor Mark Hatfield, 40, rolled to a second term with lots of votes to spare. More impressive, he was one of the few incumbent Governors in the U.S. whose plurality did not shrink from the previous election. Hatfield was just too much for Democratic State Attorney General Robert Thornton, who never had a chance. But Hatfield missed another sort of chance: he gave only the most tepid support to a weak G.O.P. ticket mate, Senate Candidate Sig Unander, who did well in losing to Democrat Wayne Morse. If popular Mark Hatfield had gone all-out for Unander, he might...
Republican Mark Hatfield was re-elected to the governorship over Robert Thornton, and Democrat Wayne Morse was re-elected as Senator over Sig Unander...
Magical Power. At first glance, the six objects of Wescott's literary affection-Katherine Anne Porter, Somerset Maugham, Colette. Isak Dinesen, Thomas Mann and Thornton Wilder-seem to have little in common. But all illustrate Wescott's passionate belief in the magical power of a story to hold those brooding truths about human behavior that cannot be abstracted as philosophy or illuminated in the swift lightning of poetic metaphor...