Word: trashier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Gulf Coast. But its characters are rowdy Sicilian immigrants, and its tenor is life-loving and affirmative. Playwright Williams has cast off unnaturalism for primitivism, neurosis for fulfillment, the genteel nymphomaniac for the savage one-man woman. But though he has reversed his basic theme, introduced some livelier and trashier tunes, trilled a bit less and banged more, Williams has never seemed so blatantly himself...
...superb review of William Faulkner's latest novel and the fairest, most graceful estimate yet of Fellow Critic Van Wyck Brooks's work. Sometimes his literary snobbishness leads Wilson into his most readable and most amusing writing. "Ambushing a Best-Seller" will make readers of the trashier kinds of historical novels blush for themselves and the authors who provide their fare; "What Became of Louis Bromfield" is fair criticism of a popular writer, but cruel enough to double as a pitiless obituary...
...play itself is less bad than hopelessly talky and dull. Though the writing is better than the playwriting, it seldom seems alive; if Daphne Laureola was to be no more vital, it should perhaps have been trashier. There is nothing wrong with Bridie's subject. His play rather resembles Willa Gather's memorable novelette, A Lost Lady - in the lady herself, the perceptive old husband who dies (well played by Cecil Parker), the young romantic who idealizes her, the young vulgarian she sleeps with and marries. But far from capturing any of Willa Gather's lingering glow...