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Eliot and Fry: Modern Verse Drama

THE COCKTAIL PARTY by T. E. Eliot; Harcourt, Brace and Company; 190 pp. THE LADY'S NOT FOR BURNING by Christopher Fry; Oxford University Press; 90 pp.

Nothing, I think, except flakes of drifting fear.

The promise of oblivion...

Thomas, can you mean to let

The World go on?

Thomas: I know my limitations.

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When the landscape goes to see, the wind is obsessed

By tomorrow.

The theatre is richer and wiser for Mr. Elliot having give it his "Cocktail Party," even though he paints a landscape generally gone to see; and for Mr. Fry, though he writes like his own "obsessed wind.

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