Word: atkinsons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When McKinley attacked "isolation," he spoke as an expansionist, admittedly a certain breed of internationalist. But the motives for his internationalism-"McKinleyism," as Edward Atkinson called it-were those of high-pressure minorities inspired by self-interest. McKinley's reciprocity was a weapon of economic conquest, a give-&-receive proposition in which we gave a hard left and received the purse...
...Only four U.S. dailies sell for 1? a copy. They are the Amesbury, Mass. News, Covington, Ohio Stillwater Valley News, Bangor, Pa. News and Fort Atkinson, Wis. News...
...Chungking last week New York Times ex-Dramacritic Brooks Atkinson took time out from war corresponding to see a Chinese Hamlet. The audience arrived at 8. The theater was "cleared of trash left from the afternoon performance" by 8:30. The curtains parted at 9. The cast wore false noses in an attempt to look Occidental, acted to Handel's Largo and Beethoven's Minuet in G. At 11:15 the play was only half over, but Atkinson left because "the ricksha boys hate to go over the hill in the dead of the night." His verdict...
...last week Justin Brooks Atkinson packed his pipes and tobacco, a few travel necessities and a copy of Hamlet ("for relaxation") total 56 lb.-and hopped off for Chungking. There he will be resident correspondent for the Times...
Startled were Broadway and millions of theatergoers, to whom Brooks Atkinson's drama reviews have for 16 years been gospel. It was difficult for them to imagine Brooks Atkinson as a war correspondent at all. He wrote his quiet, austere prose in a leisurely fashion, always followed a set routine which he once described: "First, put the program on the desk so that the title of the play and the names of the actors can be accurately copied. Then lay out a box of matches, light a pipe, take a pad of yellow paper and a dozen sharply pointed...