Word: wildering
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...there were other historically contributing factors. Gertrude S. and Virgil T. had long been thinking independently about the artistic expression of America's 19th century. They met early in the 1920's, quite naturally in Paris, where Gertrude's flock then and later included Hemingway, Sherwood Anderson, and Thornton Wilder...
...best Broadway season in years-with Shakespeare. Marlowe, Giraudoux, Anouilh and Wilder on the boards; with Julie Harris, Shirley Booth, Ruth Gordon, Shelley Winters, Nancy Walker, Gwen Verdon on the scene; and more hits around than theaters to hold them-one of the most dazzling events is the performance in The Diary of Anne Frank of 17-year-old Susan Strasberg (TIME, Oct. 17). Susan got an actress's recognition last week when her name went up in lights a foot high above the title of the show, and she became the youngest dramatic star ever to shine...
Horton also revealed the promotion of Professor Amos N. Wilder to the Hollis Professorship of Divinity, the oldest endowed university chair in the country. Wilder, an authority on the New Testament, succeeds Henry J. Cadbury, who retired...
...Wilder, the new Hollis Professor, is not only a Biblical scholar, but also an authority on modern poetry. He has been on the Divinity School faculty since...
...Matchmaker (by Thornton Wilder) by another name did not smell anything like so sweet. As The Merchant of Yonkers-a rewrite of a century-old Viennese farce-it was pretty much of a flop when produced on Broadway in 1938. But as further rewritten by Playwright Wilder and lustily staged by Tyrone Guthrie, what once merely clattered now careens, what formerly sputtered now explodes...