Word: crushed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first-nighters recognized him, but the rumpled character caught in the crush at last week's opening of Walter and Jean Kerr's musicomedy Goldilocks (see THEATER) had one of the most important parts in the show: he was the moneyman. Roger Lacey Stevens, 48, a balding, burly real estate operator who did not become a playgoer until he passed 30, today is the busiest producer on Broadway. He handles the purse strings for 1) the Producers' Theater, a group he formed with Producer Robert Whitehead; 2) the famed Playwrights' Company; 3) ANTA (American National Theater...
Surely, however, there is more than altruism involved. Officers of the University have, no doubt, been delayed by traffic and some of them may even have developed mild symptoms of nervous frustration waiting to cross Massachusetts Avenue. But the crush of automobiles around the Yard cannot be the only reason for such a potentially expensive program...
While sexual scheming takes up a disproportionate share of The Law, Author Vailland manages to use it chiefly to accent the greed, misery and lust for power that fill his febrile small-town world. The moral of The Law is that the strong and ruthless will crush the weak and righteous almost every time-and Author Vailland has the knack of making their victory seem inevitable...
...Jordan People's Radio" (clandestine): "Free officers and men in Jordan, carry your arms, carry your spears, carry your rifles and your bombs in the face of the treacherous enemy and hangman rulers. Open the fire of hell over the heads of the treacherous rulers. Crush these snakes ... People, be ready to kill your enemies, the occupation forces and their stooges...
...driver who refuses to take the ex-prisoner's tip, the neighbor woman who offers him food and comfort. And when his wife comes home from work and his son from school, there is a moving confrontation that shows how the faceless horror can beat upon yet not crush out the deepest feelings of its victims. Tibor Dery's Behind the Brick Wall tells a story in which impoverished factory workmen are forced to steal, workers' "trials" force pathetic culprits into suicide, and decent men in positions of power are made literally sick by the actions they...