In the following excerpt, Brown offers a mixed assessment of The Glass Menagerie, maintaining that while the play is "blessed with imagination" and "is the work of a mind both original and sensitive... .Mr. Williams's drama sometimes proves empty." Brown also speculates that the play suffers from a plot that is too loosely constructed and dialogue that provides little action and thus fails to hold the audience's interest.
A lady, obviously no psychologist, once encountered William Lyon Phelps on the street in New Haven. "I hope you won't mind my telling you how much I enjoyed your lecture yesterday?" she asked. "Madam," beamed Professor Phelps, "you misunderstand me entirely. I am glutton for praise."
All of us are. Praise has never made anyone unhappy. We like it even when we do not believe it. We tire.....
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