Word: view
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Your comprehensive and accurate view of Mexico today is tarnished by your cover painting splash of President López Mateos...
...matter of fact, there is not a ghost of a chance that a third party representing labor will be formed-and Meany knows it. Next day his vice president, Walter Reuther, suggested charitably that Meany was "misunderstood," and then voiced the traditional A.F.L. view: "The American labor movement is committed to work within the framework of the two-party system. A labor party is wrong because it would further fragmentize our society." And, as Republican Summerfield had pointed out, labor did very well for itself in the November elections in the Democratic Party...
...stage S. N. Behrman's memories of Jewish neighborhood life in Worcester, Mass. The author of many urbane comedies of ideas, Behrman here wives farce with feeling. If his characters in earlier plays (Biography, Rain from Heaven) seemed not so much human beings as assorted points of view, in The Cold Wind they are often not so much human beings as pieces on a racial chessboard. And in the many places where Behrman commemorates traditional Jewish characters enacting standard roles his play is both warm and entertaining...
...author of Broadway's latest hit (see THEATER). J.B. is an analogy between the Bible's searching sufferer and modern man. In the New York Times, MacLeish explains the necessities of heart and mind that led him to write the play; he also gives a moving view of his generation's despair-and hope...
...KING MUST DIE, by Mary Renault. No great novelist but an eminently able literary archaeologist, Author Renault dug up the year's best piece of historical fiction. Her telling of the bloody Theseus story and her meticulously detailed view of ancient Mediterranean life is a notable achievement...