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LESS INTERESTED in examining the political facet of Odets's writing than in searching for deeper psychological meaning, however, Brenman-Bibson a practicing psychoanalyst, believes that the political nature of Odets's art is merely symptomatic of childhood insecurities...
Born in 1906 to a Jewish working-class family in Philadelphia, Odets spent his early years in a home in which he, his mother, and his two younger sisters were--Brenman-Bibson would have it--tyrannized by a bullying, selfish intent only on upward financial and social movement...
...this impassioned father/son relationship, Brenman-Bibson finds the unresolved conflict that would haunt his future life and work. Off the stage, he would look for sympathetic father-figures among his male companions, and treat women with the attitude he learned from his father: fear of commitment led to a long string of unstaisfying love affairs. On the stage, Brenman-Bibson sees the onmipresent L. J. Odets lurking in the the employers, the Nazis, and all of the other tyrannical forces at the center of Odets's plays...
...TRADEOFF is unmistakable. Although this is clearly a heavily documented scholarly tool, it is unfortunate that Brenman-Bibson did not write a slightly more approachable biography to immortalize her obvious admiration for Odets...
Each has served as clerk to a U.S. Supreme Justice. Kaufman was clerk to Felix Frankfurter from 1955 to 1957. Michelson worked for William J. Brenman Jr. in 1961-62. Shapiro was clerk to John Harlan...