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...Thornton Wilder was a member of the Lost Generation who was never lost, and his own generation never quite forgave him for that. Born a year after Fitzgerald, two years before Hemingway, he confessed to being "fundamentally a happy person." While his disillusioned contemporaries were rebelling brilliantly as expatriates in Paris, Wilder, whose grandfather was a Presbyterian minister, sometimes plotted out his writing during church services, taught contentedly at a New Jersey prep school (Lawrenceville) and ended up a lifelong bachelor sharing a house with his sister Isabel in Hamden, Conn. Rotund, kind and twinkly to the point of Dickensian...
Like Thornton Wilder's Mr. Antrobus, man has survived ice ages, more subtle climatic changes and, thus far at least, his own inventions. Now his adaptability is facing a new challenge. Industrialization and expanding technology are radically altering the environment and exposing man to growing amounts of harmful pollutants, some of them chemicals that did not exist a century, a decade or even a year or two ago. Result: an increase in many old ailments and the emergence of new ones-all traceable to substances in air, water and food. Says Dr. Irving Selikoff of New York...
...character, and she takes you through her journey. What you seek is to be possessed." Earlier this year Ashley was totally possessed by the role of Maggie during her highly acclaimed New York performance in Cat On a Hot Tin Roof. Then cast as Sabina in Thornton Wilder's 1942 comedy The Skin of Our Teeth, she showed herself to be equally consumed during the show's 2½-month tour through Birmingham, Washington. D.C., and Boston. ("It's the hardest thing I've ever done," she said at one point...
...Skin of Our Teeth. This play is thought of quite highly in some circles--for instance, it won a Pulitzer Prize. I always thought it was a little trite, what with Thornton Wilder celebrating the Ability of Man to Endure Through the Ages (with his long-suffering wife in tow). Wilder follows one family, the Antrobuses (like the Greek work, anthropos, which means man--get it?), from the Stone Age to the present, as they weather a variety of trials and they weather a variety of trials and tribulations-marital infidelity, juvenile delinquency, the ice Age. Still, it's good...
...Effie L. Wilder Summerville...