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...Thornton Wilder, popular novelist and ex-Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry, will receive this year's Gold Medal for Fiction from the Academy of Arts and Letters, it was announced recently...
Died. Brigadier General (ret.) Wilber Elliott Wilder, 95, oldest surviving graduate ('77) of the U.S. Military Academy, winner of the Medal of Honor for gallantry in action against the Apaches in 1882; on Governors Island...
That announcement ends speculation that has been going on all year about who would teach the course on "Epic and Novel." Two years ago Professor Harry Levin '33 conducted the lectures, and last year it was Thornton Wilder. The first half is taught by Professor John H. Finley...
...Brattle Theatre has taken a busman's holiday from its Shakespearean tragedy with two modern tours de force which provide a highly entertaining, if at times puzzling, program. Both Christopher Fry's "A Phoenix Too Frequent" and Thornton Wilder's "The Long Christmas Dinner" have their messages and their morals. Fortunately, however, these are practically unintelligible when surrounded by a superbly fantastic plot in the first play, and then kaleidoscoping ninety years in less than and hour in the second...
...Wilder's "The Long Christmas Dinner" is a mighty spooky play, and comes as a shock after the frothiness and gossamer of the one preceding it. While it is dedicated to the simple theory that the ups and downs of human existence are pretty small matters after all, it is hard to view death with Wilder's objectivity. Three generations of a family are born in the play, have their Christmas dinners on stage, and die by walking through a door covered with black crepe paper. These deaths mount up after a while...