Word: clod
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...clod ye oaf ye moron ye imbecile...
...teeth drives his wife Mary (Phyllis Calvert) into a shabby affair with a frustrated bookseller, Clive Root (Paul Scofield). In a scene of Congrevous farce, the lovers are caught by Rhodes, but con their way to freedom. Eventually, Rhodes learns the truth, and Greene suddenly, boldly reveals the decent clod beneath a fool's veneer. Unable to live without his wife, he shamelessly offers to share her with the bookseller. At play's end, Mary and Clive prepare for a cold assignation in shabby rooms, already fearing that she will inevitably and finally escape to .the warming boredom...
...clod," he said, suddenly capable of speech. "Why do you have to go changing the complexion of my maid-pale peace at this hour of the morning. I feel sick...
...Money." Born and brought up in Chicago, Shelley, 32, says that even in his early days he played to the crowd. "As I grew older, I became more proficient at being a showoff. I was a pretty good loudmouth. I was the guy at parties. You know-that clod who determines the mood of the gathering. My whole act is confession. Every word I say, I'm admitting something...
...course any clod can be a crusader, but Osborne is no literary Peter the Hermit. His fervor is complemented by a first-rate independent mind. For all the obvious intensity with which he holds his beliefs, he has no all-embracing doctrine that makes his views on every question predictable, and that serves him as a fetter as well as a crutch. He is a confirmed socialist, but he has acknowledged that "Socialism is an experimental idea, not a dogma." (I quote from a published symposium entitled Declaration, which contains essays by Osborne and Kenneth Tynan which are worth reading...