Writer

Fred Gardner

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My Mother, My Father and Me

Lillian Hellman believes that accurate criticism is kinder than false praise, and her treatment of middle-class Jews is the kindest


The Cliche Expert Testifies on Disarmament

( Scene: a court of opinion Characters: a persecuting attorney, the Witness, Gutintent, and his silent counsel, Mr. Frank Sullivan)


Flaming Red

There must have been more to the thirties than the residue of cliches which Clifford Odets managed to preserve. A


South of the Border

San Cristobal las Casas, a mountain town in Southern Mexico, supplies the Indians of the surrounding hills with hardware, priests,


The Unweeded Garden of Cora Jenks

That most versatile writer, Jonathan Swift, almost conspicuously avoided the drama. Yet Carter Wilson '63 has put the experimental theatre


Residue Of Hatred In Havana

Liberals in this country have blathered a great many easy, perfunctory mea culpas over Cuba, but will not accept real


Last Train from Marienbad

I caught a late Saturday night showing at the Carnegie Hall Cinema, where a strange intensity radiated from the audience.


All Gall

Fitting together these three comedies, separated in style and centuries, was a clever idea. They are not linked by Gallic


A Thousand Clowns

Spontaneity has been overdone of late, and Herb Gardner's first play almost does it again. Everyone knows that the Organization