Word: blackens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Broadway-for a rumored final visit to Broadway-in a theater piece of strikingly acrid power. Adapted by Maurice Valency from the German of Swiss Playwright Friedrich Düurrenmatt, The Visit begins in light colors and comedy guise, suddenly to darken the face of its canvas, to blacken the hearts of its characters. A grisly fable of a woman's vengeful hate, it shows a whole community relentlessly succumbing to greed...
...rith's Anti-Defamation League. Forster recalled an interview by a Cogley assistant, said he had not expected word-for-word quotation, and insisted that Cogley had quoted him incompletely. Though he had indeed linked newspapermen, advertising executives and American Legion officials to "clearance" activities that could "un-blacken" performers, Forster said he had no intention of making them out to be "reprehensible" men. Said he: "From where I sat, the men who are alleged to be clearance men in this context were doing good, and not evil." But when Committee Chairman Francis Walter suggested that there really...
...volume shows that one word can have different meanings when used by Communists in Russia or in the West. According to a Hungarian female Communist, for instance, the informer (donoschik) is "the mightiest and most honorable discharger of responsibility." But in Western Communist polemics, which passionately try to blacken the characters of all ex-Communists who have returned with news from the dark side of the moon, informer is a dirty word...
...Little's remarks, however. "As far as Harvard's general academic standards go, I think they are as high, if not higher, than any Ivy Group College. Still, you must remember no Group school makes special exemptions for its athletes, and I'm sure Lou wasn't trying to blacken anyone's reputation...
...place in the tow of a good Samaritan, Cinemactor John (Surrender) Carroll, who tried to beach rudderless Nicky in a quiet berth in Carroll's apartment near by. On their long voyage home, Nicky got hold of the car door, expertly swung it to blacken Carroll's eye. Local cops, called by Carroll's neighbors, described the rest of the trip. To the echoes of cursing, screaming and collapsing furniture, Nicky greeted them with a manful challenge: "You want a fight? Here I am!" In handcuffs, Nicky was hauled in a radio car to the police station...