Word: aping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Neill career had begun. Before The Iceman Cometh, it had yielded such theater milestones as The Emperor Jones, The Hairy Ape, Desire under the Elms, The Great God Brown, Strange Interlude, Mourning becomes Electro, and Ah, Wilderness...
...plays had netted him some $2,000,000; he could hope for a steadier income only if he had also written the Bible and a cookbook. His third marriage, with lovely Actress Carlotta Monterey, who had played opposite Louis Wolheim in O'Neill's The Hairy Ape (see cut), was an eminently happy one. After an all but mythically swift rise to fame, with 37 plays, he was still relatively young. In experience, he was a brilliant, confident professional, at the height of his hopes and powers. He was a hard, resourceful worker, who loved his work...
...section headed "Up From the Ape" the poll aims to determine whether the subject is a confirmed beer guzzler, a sipper only on social occasion, or among those who soak up hard "likker" by the quart in solitary confinement...
...particularly interested in what may have happened when Man still lived in trees. He says almost nothing about nations and kings, little about priests. As for culminations of any sort: "I remain, and seem likely to remain, a somewhat altered fish, a slightly remodeled ape...
...these are the most remarkable subhistorical works ever written in the State of Idaho. Unrelated to one another so far as "story" goes, they are part of what Fisher obviously regards as a serious attempt to trace "the origin and evolution of human morality" from the days of the ape man to relatively modern times. At what point of human development the saga will end is not clear, nor is it altogether clear how far along it is now. The period of Intimations seems to be vaguely Pleistocene. If so, there is still somewhere between...