Word: touche
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would bother to bat against the Phillies' Robin Roberts to get their baseball stories. But Denny McCluggage is willing and able to tool a skittish sports car through a major race, or rocket down a mountainside in a ski meet to give her stories an expert's touch. Her bylined stories are often self-consciously worded, but they usually sparkle with a personal flair. "There's a certain feeling that one gets in skiing and in driving a car-a fast car," she explains. "It's that subtle control of divergent forces that makes...
...death in 1953, his tall, thin body wracked by the palsy of a nerve-muscle disorder, O'Neill made an agonizing decision: he would destroy the cycle's six unfinished plays so that no writer could draw conclusions from his beginnings. One manuscript was spared-A Touch of the Poet, which O'Neill thought was ready for the stage. "We tore them up, bit by bit," his wife later recalled. "He could tear just a few sheets at a time. It was like tearing up children...
Last week the world got its first inkling of what Dramatist O'Neill was up to in his sprawling series. Stockholm's Royal Dramatic Theater, which gave the first performance last year of Long Day's Journey, gave the first performance of A Touch of the Poet, the play O'Neill had intended to start the cycle before he became fascinated by its characters and wrote two other plays exploring their ancestors. Generally, Sweden's critics applauded O'Neill's story of Cornelius Melody, a drunken, frustrated Irishman who runs an inn near...
...Need to Dream. In A Touch of the Poet, O'Neill explores the theme he used in The Iceman Cometh-a man needs to dream-but he laces the bitter, dialectic dialogue between Melody and his family with rollicking humor and blazing theatrics. Melody keeps a thoroughbred mare to bolster his pride, yet forces his daughter to work as a waitress. When he swaggers out to challenge a rich Yankee who has insulted his family, he is beaten into the dust by servants, and his dream world shatters. His daughter, who has ridiculed his false life, is horrified...
Broadway Producer Robert Whitehead (Separate Tables, Waltz of the Toreadors) is planning to bring A Touch of the Poet to Manhattan next season to make the O'Neill revival livelier...