Word: tragedians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...although it is good enough in both respects. What it mainly offers for the modern reader is a literate statement of philosophy which finds the middle ground between religious panacea and existentialist despair." This "middle ground" was explained as the fact that "J.B. forgives God. This is not the tragedian's agnosticism or the atheist's bland facility--MacLeish has added to the stature of man at the expense of God. If man can presume to forgive his maker, then his maker, although omnipotent, is no longer omniscient. MacLeish has humanized his God." Anyway, all theological niceties aside...
...third movie, Kind Hearts and Coronets, established him as a world figure, the most famous British zany since Sir Harry Lauder. Alec was not quite sure he liked it. Like most British actors, he looked on cinema as a lower art form.* Besides, he fancied himself rather as a tragedian than as a funnyface. But there it was. And when his cold, existential, matter-of-fact Hamlet ("He was acute and intelligent, but flow of soul he lacked") flopped in the West End the next year, that tied the ribbon on it. Alec went to work in earnest...
Blank Sense of Pain. Dreiser the secular tragedian lurched toward the apocalypse of revolution like a blind bear shambling to its cave. When he joined the Communist Party, he wrote William Z. Foster that it was the "logic of my life...
Freed from Trouble. As a future tragedian. Leopardi began life with every possible disadvantage in his favor. His mother, Contessa Adelaide, made piety seem more a crime than a virtue. When children-her own or other people's-were stillborn or died in infancy. Mother Leopardi "experienced a deep happiness . . . inasmuch as [they] had flown to heaven, while their parents had been freed from the trouble of bringing them up." Of Leopardi's father. Conte Monaldo, it is reported that he once took off his pants in the street and gave them to a beggar...
...Chekhov play, "A Tragedian in Spite of Himself" will be directed by John Kerr '52. Michael Mabry '53 will play the part of the tragedian, and Donald Stewart '53 will play his friend. The second play will be Shaw's. "The Shewing Up of Blanche Posnit," to be directed by Irving Yoskowitz '53 and produced by shop productions. It offered the first last February