Word: byronic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three actors and actresses transform the drama into the most powerful production to hit Boston in many a season. Byron McGrath's portrayal of the vitriolic Jack Manningham will send chills jumping from vertebra to vertebra for three solid hours. His tortured, neurotic wife, as played by Lynn Phillips, is a study in desperate hatred. Relief from all this psychopathic tension is contributed by Ernest Cossart in the role of a detective, Sergeant Rough. Cossart has been appearing in movies for several years, but has always been buried in minor parts as a butler or valet. In "Angel Street...
Among the scrub eucalyptus trees in a trim little Australian-American military cemetery outside Port Moresby, the New York Times's Byron Darnton was buried last week with full military honors. The Army said only that he was killed in an accident. He was 44 years old and the tenth U.S. correspondent to fall in line of duty in World...
...time was last January; the scene, Censor Byron Price's office. The nation's press had just received a very complete and baffling set of ground rules for wartime censorship, but despite this everyone was optimistic and cooperative. A far cry from that was the scene in Washington a fortnight ago, as long-suffering correspondents threatened at last to blow the lid over the ridiculous hush-hush handling of President Roosevelt's inspection tour...
...your excellent article on Hesketh Pearson's biography of George Bernard Shaw [TIME, Oct. 5] you quote H. G. Wells as having called Shaw "an intellectual eunuch." Wells has plagiarized the phrase from Byron, who in his satirical dedication of Don Juan said of Milton...
Though the play recaptures Anderson's old simple virtues, it reveals some of his ingrained faults. He has resisted for the nonce his usual high-flown poetizing, or at any rate put it to half-comic use by letting an absurd Southern private spout Byron, Keats, Arnold, T. S. Eliot. But Anderson is sometimes wordy even in prose. Now and then he overworks his pathos. He throws in a jarring dream sequence. "His taste sometimes falters. Fortunately his theme, like a horse more astute than its rider, saves him from ever getting too far off the road...