Word: vitalizer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there were Indians to receive the first explorers on the American continent. Antarctica alone, says Stefansson, is "the one continent whose true human discoverers are known"-and at a period of civilization when such men as Scott, Shackleton, Amundsen could be aware of, and set down, the most vital details of their discoveries...
Currently appearing before apathetic and disinterested audiences in New York, "Temper the Wind" is a searching treatment of the lax and ineffective American occupation of Germany. It is a play with moral implications that should be of vital interest to the post-war world, yet it is received with nothing more than boredom and half-hearted approval. Written during the war years by two men speculating on the character of our German occupation in the event of an Allied victory, "Temper the Wind" is a somber prediction that has unfortunately come true. Accused of writing their play from today...
From the U.S.: General Omar Nelson Bradley, the "Doughboys' General" and able boss of the Veterans Administration, well knows how much peace in Europe cost in U.S. lives and money. The probable next Chief of Staff, he has a vital interest in seeing that U.S. foreign policy helps to create a politically and economically stable Europe; unless such a Europe is created, Bradley's veterans (or their sons) may fight again over battlefields where, two years ago, Bradley was hammering out victory...
...Wind is extremely uneven playwriting and not quite forceful enough theater. It has too many characters to keep it tidy or taut; its clash of viewpoints never quite boils up into drama; its culminating melodrama is clumsily handled and unexciting. But it remains an honest approach to a vital subject. And if it sounds sharp warnings, it offers no smug answers; it is evidence given in the witness box, rather than a resounding verdict handed down from the bench...
...jungles to clinks; but it lacks satiric or any other kind of momentum. It skitters between monkeyshines and melodrama, dilutes the satire, overdoes the sex. But it remains, by Broadway standards, refreshingly unconventional. While giving little to Beggar's Holiday, The Beggar's Opera perhaps took something vital away-the chance to start from scratch, to build homogeneously from the ground...