Word: crude
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...world premiere. Eugene O'Neil bad called "Fiesta" the best example of Mexican peon life he had ever read; the author was even journeying to Cambridge to see his play staged. But the long arm of decency stopped in after several complaints from spectators that the play was "crude and immoral." Three days after it opened, the mayor of Boston banned the production...
Home-town Decision. Moving in to the attack. Hurley caught the home-town sportswriters off guard. "Cockell," he told them, "could beat Rocky Marciano on the best day Rocky ever knew. Marciano can't box. He's just a big, crude swinger. Who has Marciano beaten anyway...
...investments. He revised the investment law so that it put no limit on the percentage of profits that can be taken out of the country by petroleum investors. To appease his countrymen, Perón's deal with Atlas-Dresser provides that the U.S. companies explore and produce crude oil, after which Argentina will take over the refining and distribution. Dresser will supply the oil-drilling rigs, and Atlas the management and most of the capital. They will prospect for new fields in the Neuquén area, 600 miles southwest of Buenos Aires, try to get more...
...sacrificed any attempt at good literary style. The review of the year, for instance, can catch the mood of the year when written well. 318, however, has abandoned efforts at coherent styling. A series of items--jolly-ups, biddies, football ticket scandals, the Yale weekend--appear in a crude sort of stream of consciousness which is vague enough now and will not mean anything a few years hence. For example, an item, presumably about the Conservative League, starts: "Some plots have a way of thickening--even thick plots. . . a boy and a skunk, and I can't trust my roommate...
...made by Britain's Socialist Novelist J. B. Priestley in The Magicians and the U.S.'s Republican Novelist Howard Swiggett in The Power and the Prize. Priestley's book is suave, but wanders off into drawing-room speculation; Swig-gett's novel is crude, though closer to boardroom politics...