Word: budd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Back from the war in 1946, he taught for a while at Princeton and Berkeley. In the late forties he was called to New York to work on his dramatization of Melville's novella, Billy Budd...
...Billy Budd marked the beginning and in some ways the end of Chapman's career as a professional playwright. Chapman had written six plays before he showed one to anybody. "I don't think they exist anymore," he says, and he doesn't seem to regard their loss as any great tragedy. He wrote Billy Budd with a Princeton colleague, Louis Coxe. In 1949, it was produced at an uptown off-Broadway theatre. Two years later a second version opened on Broadway to mixed reviews. The play promptly became a cause. John Mason Brown's notice in the Saturday Review...
...think so, and the reader may well decide, despite Aldridge, that the old sea dog is right. There is a great deal of top-level muckraking about the malevolent moral dwarfs who operate international finance-capitalism; it is possibly the least convincing stuff since Upton Sinclair's Lanny Budd went crusading for a better world amid the corrupt chancelleries of Europe...
...ANGRY VOICES OF WATTS: AN NBC NEWS INQUIRY (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Budd Schulberg's writers' workshop for young Negroes in Watts (TIME, July 22) is the focal point for this report, which will include poems, essays and short stories written by Schulberg's students...
...Albany trip by a third, to not much more than the two hours it takes by air. The probable cost: $5, or $1.78 less than the present train fare, and about $8 less than the price of a plane ticket. Special high-speed trains now being developed by the Budd Co. and United Aircraft may roll up passenger traffic-and profits-even faster...