Word: claim
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only in this but in many seasons. Yet it is a play based completely on the evil in human nature, a story of degeneration in a Southern family bent only on money and the power it brings. Like those who have slammed the covers of Baudclaire, many will claim that a play can not be great and still disgust by its ugliness. Its attraction is the attraction of evil. Its entertainment is that of waiting and hoping for good. And therein is the great artistry of Miss Hellman. "The Little Foxes" is brutal and overpowering. It forces submission. Only...
...boat Orazio in filthy condition. A commission of French officers, employes of the Espionage and secret police, received us. They demanded us to sign a release for the correct return of the money, baggage and documents which were deposited with the authorities upon our seizure in Marseille. Upon our claim that we had not received our money and belongings and therefore could not sign, we were told that if we did not sign we would be put off the boat and taken back to the prison camp. Naturally we all signed. Then we received empty envelopes which originally contained...
Perhaps because their work carries them above earthbound creatures, making them feel transcendental even in mundane war, fighting airmen have always laid claim to greater gallantry than other soldiers. German Air Marshal Hermann Goring last week promulgated a regulation saying that captured enemy fliers are to be treated at all times as "officers and gentlemen...
...best, though, good literature must approach absolute perception, fused with absolute statement. Walk Like a Mortal, engaging though it is, cannot and wisely does not try to lay claim to either. Its perceptions are safe and uncritical. It is nicely written: yet it would be hard to find a definitive sentence in it. In appraisal of talented Dan Wickenden it is instructive to recall another book by and about another young man; James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (see p. 86). Joyce could never have written Walk Like a Mortal: even...
This columnist has been catching sundry buffets from some of the schools' more ardent dance fans because of his claim that Artie Shaw's retirement from the dance business was due to more than a desire for philosophical peace and tranquility; that in fact it was a rather hasty exodus. We have quite plainly thought that Artie was at times more than a little queer in his actions...