Word: towns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...later this year. And Thompson is being asked for new works all the time. His future plans include two more choral compositions, one commissioned by the Worcester music festival, and the other, a setting of a Frost poem, will commemorate the two hundredth anniversary of the founding of the town of Amherst...
After Oxford came several years of writing and directing, including "six months as director of a weekly repertory in a town in Staffordshire in the Midlands. I did twenty-four plays in twenty-four weeks, including O'Neill and Shakespeare." (Imagine a repertory company doing a play a week, including O'Neill and Shakespeare, in, say, a middle-sized city in Pennsylvania. Even a city the size of Boston seems hardly willing to bestir itself to support a repertory theatre.) He That Plays the King, his book on the drama, came out in 1951; it includes material written at Oxford...
...drama ("I hate to use phrases like 'mainstream,'" says Tynan) has to do with "observable reality. I think--let's be frank--that Kazan has moved too far away from that without the moral or social realities that are necessary to sustain it. Even in a play like Our Town ... the performances are realistic, and the dialogue is, and that is its strength, not its staging tricks. Splendid as they are, it's as good a play without them. I don't think the conscious use of symbols comes naturally out of American literature. When Tennessee Williams tries...
Nobody gave a second glance to the four rows of ribbons on the silk stole of the curate as he greeted the members of the congregation. Parishioners of St. John the Baptist's, Anglican Church in the little Berkshire town of Crowthorne-like churchgoers throughout England-are growing used to having a middle-aged pastor with military decorations. In Britain today, the church is second only to "the City," London's commercial center, as the favored career for senior officers retiring from the armed services...
Political Magic. The fictional town of Belele lies in a huge chunk of northeast Africa. As Novelist Griffin tells it, Mussolini made the region an ornament of empire in the '30s; now the British are trying to get control through a mandate. To the white men who rule the area, native hatred is as much a fact of life as the brutal sun, the distant howls of hyenas. Belele has a fort, a few British officers, a power plant that is as unreliable as the loyalty of the natives. The Italians still remaining are despised by their British successors...