Word: wilderness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Playwright Thornton Wilder (Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth) revealed some facts about that new play, still unnamed and still in the works: it will need no scenery, no curtain, no stage lights, no music. The house lights will not be dimmed at any time, and the action will unroll without a break. The subject: the life of a man. The casting: different actors to play the hero at different ages; one actress to play all the major female parts...
...only hope for American literature, Lewisohn concluded, is to be found in the work of such prose writers as Thornton Wilder, and such modern poets as Frederic Prokosch, Karl Shapiro, and Peter Viereck. He especially commended Vierock, who, he said, has been alone in his attempt to "convey with lucidity and power certain fundamental realities. of the spirit of man-which is the true purpose of all literature...
...committee of U.S. citizens (honorary chairman: Herbert Hoover) arranged to take over the mountain resort of Aspen, Colo, for a three-week bicentennial festival. They hired the Minneapolis Symphony to play, and assembled a distinguished roster of speakers, including Poet Stephen Spender, Novelist Ludwig Lewisohn, Playwright Thornton Wilder, Alsatian Philosopher-Missionary Albert Schweitzer, and Spain's Philosopher-Teacher-Statesman José Ortega y Gasset...
Cinema Director Billy Wilder reported a bit of dialogue between himself and veteran cinemactor Erich ("The Man You Love to Hate") von Stroheim. Said Wilder: "It is an honor to direct you. You were ten years ahead of your time." Responded Von Stroheim: "No, 20 years...
...which will be held from June 27 through July 16 at Aspen, in the mountains of Colorado. The Goethe Bicentennial Foundation-whose board of directors includes such Goethe admirers as Herbert Hoover, Thomas Mann, Marshall Field, Walter Paepcke, chairman of the Container Corp. of America, and Novelist-Playwright Thornton Wilder-chose distant Aspen as the seat of homage because, in the words of Chairman Robert M. Hutchins of the University of Chicago, "we thought such a celebration ought to require a pilgrimage." At Aspen, Goethe will be the center of round-table discussions, seminars, symposia and symphony concerts. There...