Word: thorntons
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Prospect for No. 2. Opposing him this fall is Democratic Attorney General Robert Y. Thornton, 52, an energetic campaigner who has taunted Hatfield with trying to please everybody. The charge is accurate enough; Thornton's problem is that Hatfield has to a remarkable extent succeeded. Two years ago, before New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller's presidential candidacy became a dead letter, there was talk of a Rockefeller-Hatfield national ticket. If Hatfield is solidly re-elected this year, and if Rockefeller or another Eastern Republican heads the G.O.P. ticket in 1964 Hatfield might well...
Dumb Waiter, Thornton Wilder's Pullman Car Hiawatha and Samuel Beckett's Act Without Words...
...Wonderful Climax." The White House-sponsored acknowledgment of culture was spreading all over Washington. Last week Novelist Thornton Wilder came to town to read from his works at a "Cabinet Evening" in the State Department Auditorium; he stayed over for a White House dinner this week honoring French Minister for Culture André Malraux for which the guest list was heavily studded with actors and writers. "Washington," said Wilder grandiloquently, "is becoming like a lighthouse on the hill for those things for which we spend our lives...
When he was 14, Playwright Thornton Wilder knew his life's ambition. He wanted to be a composer of operas. He never quite made it, but 50 years later, at 64, Wilder is becoming a handy man-about-the-opera-house: his one-act play The Long Christmas Dinner recently provided the libretto for an opera by Composer Paul Hindemith (TIME, Dec. 29). Now his play The Alcestiad has furnished the Frankfurt Opera with an engaging and unexpected hit of the same name...
...paragraphs to telling you about the crisis in capitalist culture and its last 3 paragraphs to explaining why the reviewer is a better Marxist than the author of the book seems hopelessly dated and quaint. Occasionally the proletcult critics were unconsciously quite funny--witness Mike Gold's attacks on Thornton Wilder. Wilder's religion was "a pastel, pastiche, dilettante religion, without the true neurotic blood and fire, a daydream of homosexual figures in graceful gowns moving archaically among the lilies. Or his description of Archibald MacLeish: a "white collar fascist out of Harvard and Wall Street." But they were mostly...