Word: critics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...handshaking campaign for the state assembly, ousted a six-term incumbent in the Democratic primary and later beat the Republican candidate by a 2-1 margin. He went on to write a record as a diligent researcher into tax problems, a highroad critic of high-riding Joe McCarthy and a smiling sort who took defeat good-naturedly. The defeats: in 1952 for governor, by Walter Kohler. by 400,000 votes; in 1954 for governor, by Walter Kohler. by 35,000 votes; in 1956 for governor, by Vernon Thomson, by 59,000 votes...
...produced by her second husband, Actor-Director Martin Gabel. She will still do both her TV shows, look after her interest in a posh Manhattan saloon called Michael's Pub, raise some cows, and try to get Cut Purse, the horse that she owns with TV Critic John Crosby,* out on the tracks ("He's been spoiled for two years. We had to geld him, he was so giddy"). Up at 6:45 a.m., Arlene breakfasts with her ten-year-old son Peter in an eleven-room apartment that she decorated herself, is chauffeured to the studio...
...girl, before the beginning of the century, paused to raise a family and to farm at Chatham on Cape Cod, and then, past 50, felt compelled to paint some more. Meanwhile, her son Frederick Wight (Stallknecht is her maiden name) had become a proficient painter and art critic (TIME, Sept. 3, 1956). Young Wight encouraged her to paint, yet was amazed when she embarked on a masterly series of religious pictures drawn directly from the life and the people about...
...Reader's Digest has paid $100,000 for the right to run a condensation in Reader's Digest Condensed Books. The novel's movie rights have been sold for $100,000. This time, apparently, Cozzens in going to reach beyond that loyal band of fans whom Critic John Mason Brown has dubbed "the many few, more than a coterie, less than a crowd...
...Classical View. The typical Cozzens hero is devoid of heroics, bent not on expressing himself-like the protoplasmic Lennies, the torturedly egocentric Eugene Gants-but on knowing himself. Contrasting "romanticism" and "classicism," the English critic T. E. Hulme once wrote: "To the one party, man's nature is, like a well, to the other like a bucket. The view which regards man as a well, a reservoir full of possibilities, I call the romantic; the one which regards him as a very finite and fixed creature, I call the classical." Cozzens' wise men try never...