Word: classics
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...introduction which Mr. Strachey has composed for this masterpiece of radicalism, he urges the reader to believe that the communists are an erudite aggregation who predict revolution without advocating it. One is reminded of the classic morn when Poppea in her arrogance called Cleopatra a courtesan. Indeed, according to Mr. Strachey, it is not the communists who knock off the proverbial chip, but the fat capitalist who grinds down the worker to the depths of poverty and fifth...
Once again, Mr. Strachey here posits the classic thesis of the inevitability of the class struggle. Scanning the political horizon he sees only the lifted arm of Mussolini and the lifted eyebrows of Andy Mellon. He refuses absolutely to admit that our capitalist system is capable of amelioration through peaceful self-regulation...
...First Baseman Phil Cavarretta out in a close play at second base. When the Cubs protested. Umpire Moriarty retaliated by roundly abusing the whole team, ordering Manager Charles Grimm off the field. After the game Manager Grimm made the remark that came closest to being the 1935 World Series classic: "If a manager can't go out and make a decent kick, what the hell is the game coming to? I didn't swear at him but he swore at us." Said Coach John Corriden: ''He was guilty of antagonizing and demoralizing our ball club. . . ." Coach...
...scene where Alice is at last forced to have her beau to dinner in their ugly little house is a classic. The night is stifling, the dinner is much too heavy, could go wrong does from the disintegration of father's dinner clothes, to some of the most convincing embarrassed conversation you ever heard...
...curtain rises. Up from the shadowy dead-end of a Manhattan slum street rises a pylon of Brooklyn Bridge, the span sweeping out of sight high overhead with a sparse twinkle of lights. Beneath this dark serenity Playwright Anderson's people go furtively about their sinister business. With classic disregard for the laws of probability, almost everyone concerned in a 15-year-old payroll robbery for which a celebrated radical was wrongly executed, come together. There is Trock, the consumptive killer who engineered the crime, just out of prison for another misdeed. There is the judge (Richard Bennett...