Word: axelrod
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Regarding Mr. Axelrod's suggestion that ex-Presidents serve on a foreign relations committee [TiME, July 24] and Thomas Toberty's nai've backslap [TiME, Aug. 14], I'd like to present the problem in a more factual manner...
...AXELROD Cleveland, Ohio...
...Bergers and their friends would not be so wretched if it were not for the crushing tyranny of the capitalist system. Grandfather Berger, an old Marxist, would not be compelled to jump off the roof in despair. Daughter Hennie would not have to marry a simpleton after Moe Axelrod, the embittered disabled veteran, gives her a baby. Son Ralph would not have to pine for the sweetheart and sport shoes he cannot possess on his $16-a-week salary...
Admirably acted, carefully produced and for the most part intelligently and honestly written, Awake and Sing! seems to have unexpectedly backfired on Playwright Odets. His triumphal ending, with Brother Ralph profiting by Grandfather's insurance and Sister Hennie and Axelrod running away to Bermuda on his pension, depends ironically on two prime financial usufructs of the economic system which Playwright Odets has spent two hours browbeating...
...Green came back strong in the second and third periods to register three tallies on runs by Roper, Axelrod and Lesedrze which clinched the hard-fought contest...