OPINION BORN OF EXPERIENCE

“Nowadays the conflict-of-interest cops would come down hard on any editor who dared to permit a Broadway director to double as a drama critic. So much the worse for journalistic standards! It was precisely because Harold Clurman had worked with people like Inge, Odets, O’Neill, Miller and Williams that he was capable of writing with such lapidary insight about their virtues and flaws…”