Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Senator Joseph McCarthy? Judged solely from the opinions of the press and political speakers, the country would seem to be solidly united in a deep distaste for the Senator and "McCarthyism." But a Gallup poll survey last week failed to bear this out. The Canadians polled who knew of McCarthy and were willing to express their views were almost evenly divided on the issue...
...superb craftsman. He was not afraid of greasepaint. He had a deep, warm understanding of suffering. He was immensely diligent. And he produced some granitic, unforgettable plays. Yet Brown -his many Browns-never quite added up to the great American tragedy...
...years ago, Eugene O'Neill complained that America was losing its soul. More likely; it was he who had never quite found his. Yet there was a deep-down probity in the man and his work. He never cheated with his evidence, and his evidence came from the secret places of the heart. Though he manhandled the English language, recalling Dreiser's powerful clumsiness, he never consciously wrote a shoddy line. On the 20th century stage, so far, only Shaw and Sean O'Casey outrank him. He failed in his ultimate goal, to go beyond the tree...
Weather forecasters are earnest men who do their best. They pore over floods of figures on-pressure, temperature, humidity and wind velocity. They consult the precedents like judges reaching back for past decisions. Sometimes they take a deep breath and predict warm, sunny weather-and get rain and snow instead. When the mess is being cleaned up, the amateur weather prophets claim they knew what would happen all along: they felt it in their rheumatism...
Hollywood TVmen are inclined to look askance at Director Albert McCleery when he says, with deep conviction: "Television is only for those who believe in it like a religion . . . It is the dream of mankind, the magic box that will bring man the world." Unlike many other TV boosters, ex-Paratrooper McCleery backs up his big words with ambitious actions. On his Hall of Fame (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC-TV), he has staged shows ranging from the two-hour Maurice Evans Hamlet to an hour-long excerpt from Thomas Wolfe's gargantuan, garrulous novel, Of Time and the River...