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...your April 4 issue, was surprised to read that Clifford Odets' The Big Knife" is doing a brisk business on Broadway." According to TIME's theater critic, as well as other critics, it was ... a very bad play. Evidently the public does not think it is too awful...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 18, 1949 | 4/18/1949 | See Source »

David F. Wheeler '47 of Cambridge will study in a French University under the terms of the Clifford Tower Fellowship which...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Five Students, 10 Instructors Will Gain Fellowships | 4/11/1949 | See Source »

Shouted Playwright Clifford Odets, whose The Big Knife is doing a brisk business on Broadway: "I am proud to reach out and shake the hand of any man or woman who has the courage to appear here ... If I speak here Sunday, I may be without a job Monday. The country is a little in the state of unholy terror from coast to coast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Tumult at the Waldorf | 4/4/1949 | See Source »

Teachers scheduled to speak tonight are William H. Burton, lecturer on the Principles of Teaching; Abram Collier, member of the Wellesley School Board; Clifford McAvoy, educational director of the United Electrical Workers; and Alan B. Overstreet, lecturer on Government...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Experts Will Discuss Citizenship Education | 3/23/1949 | See Source »

...Knife (by Clifford Odets; produced by Dwight Deere Wiman) is Odets' first play in seven years, and probably his poorest ever. A kind of savagely spluttering memoir of Hollywood, where Odets has spent most of those seven years, it is a lament for crushed ideals and identities, a screeching indictment of vicious methods and heartless men. Its anger is real; everything else about it is contrived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Plays in Manhattan, Mar. 7, 1949 | 3/7/1949 | See Source »

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