-- card: 27153 from stack: in.0 -- bmap block id: 0 -- flags: 0000 -- background id: 4410 -- name: -- part contents for background part 14 ----- text ----- January 22 -- part contents for background part 13 ----- text ----- In 1938, the play "Our Town," Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize-winning evocation of small-town life in Grover's Corners, N.H., was performed publicly for the first time, at the McCarter Theater in Princeton, N.J. -- part contents for background part 17 ----- text ----- "... To spend and waste time as though you had a million years. To be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion, or another. Now you know - that's the happy existence you wanted to go back to. Ignorance and blindness." ---------------------------------------- From the third act of "Our Town," by Thornton Wilder (1897-1975)