SOURCE: "Why the Lady Is a Tramp," in The New Yorker, Vol. XLVI, No. 9, 18 April 1970, pp. 82, 87-8.
Oliver began her career as an actress and television writer and producer. She joined the New Yorker in 1948, becoming its off-Broadway theater critic in 1961. Here, she regards Beatrice as the central figure in The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds.
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