Word: tidningen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...curtain fell, the audience rose and applauded for almost half an hour, while the cast took more than a dozen curtain calls. Critical reaction ranged from Svenska Dagbladet's "One of the most powerful realistic dramas written in this century," to the Morgan-Tidningen's "The most gripping picture of hell that has ever been seen in the theater." But one first-nighter grumbled that "Such drawn-out, detailed probing of personalities can only keep the interest of somebody personally involved." Another offered a new title for the O'Neill opus: Four Acts in Search...
Some neutral Swedes were made a little nervous by the award. "Even if Caesar happens to sing," said the Socialist government's newspaper, the Stockholm Mor-gon-Tidningen, "he can never become an Orpheus . . . The academy move paves the way for the statesman, warrior, philosopher and poet, Mao Tse-tung in Peking, to receive the next year's prize." The Liberal Aftonbladet, however, thought the award might "well have been made much earlier." The Communist Ny Dag sneered: "This is a clear case of sidetracking Eisenhower . . . They say he, too, has written a book." But Sir Winston...