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Word: wastelanders (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Playwright Eliot, the modern world has still the look of a wasteland where drinks and tidbits are served. But his own stony The Waste Land lies now a long way off, for he himself has seen a hopeful way out. His Harley Street specialist is preaching Christian faith as well as Freud, concerned with love as well as sex; and is indeed more spiritual adviser than psychiatrist. After his perplexed visitors have left, he and his assistants drink a libation of red wine-in telling contrast to a frivolous champagne toasting at the cocktail party-and chant for Celia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Jan. 30, 1950 | 1/30/1950 | See Source »

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