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Halfway a Bastard. In all externals, Sartre had an uneventful, thoroughly coddled childhood. His father died two years after his birth in 1905, so his young mother moved back with her parents. There, while she faded back into the role of a dutiful daughter, the child grew up as the darling of all, particularly his grandfather, Charles Schweitzer,* a white-bearded Old Testament patriarch who tyrannized his own children and indulged his grandson...
...story. You can't please everyone. There will always be commentators who find it simpler and easier to get someone to call someone else an s.o.b. or a bastard than to write some thing intelligent that requires real work, accuracy and fairness. On the other hand, we must not lose our capacity for indignation. We have been listening too much to the raving hyenas, scavengers, jackals, parrots and vultures who should be kept behind moats in the Bronx Zoo. It is too bad that the rest of America does not realize how few and unrepresentative these discordant voices...
Close on Seltzer's acting heels is Mark Bramhall, Edmund the bastard son of Gloucester. Bramhall dominates the big Loeb stage and plays a cunning, cold-hearted bastard with wonderful confidence and relish. Standing near Bramhall are Lear's fool, Harry Smith, who seems too bitter, too sharp at first, but who persuades us finally; the Earl of Kent, Yann Weymouth, who acts with welcome restraint amid the general ranting; and Edgar, Richard Backus, who makes a fine fool and a noble Edgar. John Ross as Albany and Thomas Weisbuch as Cornwall both perform well, but they are in demanding...
Close on Seltzer's acting heels is Mark Bramhall, Edmund the bastard son of Gloucester. Bramhall dominates the big Loeb stage and plays a cunning, cold-hearted bastard with wonderful confidence and relish. Standing near Bramhall are Lear's fool, Harry Smith, who seems too bitter, too sharp at first, but who persuades us finally; the Earl of Kent, Yann Weymouth, who acts with welcome restraint amid the general ranting; and Edgar, Richard Backus, who makes a fine fool and a noble Edgar. John Ross as Albany and Thomas Weisbuch as Cornwall both perform well, but they are in demanding...
...recalled MacArthur. Truman "reacted instinctively, like the gutter fighter he is-and you've got to admire him." But once Truman got back to Washington, "Dean Acheson brought him back under control." All in all, MacArthur said, Truman was "a man of raw courage and guts-the little bastard honestly believes he is a patriot...