Word: donee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...record, this month's poetry ranges from fair to poor, excepting Miss Sally Higginson's "Snow in the City," which is nicely done. And an article by Durham M. Miller about the contemporary mating "dilemma" is amusing and has a point. More of this sort of thing, more simple narrative along the lines of a story in an earlier issue entitled "Good Men Are Hard to Find," and less overblown neuroticism would make "Radditudes" more balanced than it has been in its last two issues...
...Ingram as a recalcitrant brother-in-law and Isabelle Cooley as Anna have the major parts, but there is only a fine line dividing the skill of the starring roles and supporting ones. Delineations of a philosophical bartender and a pseudo-sophisticated street-walker are especially well done. But the primary attribute of the play is that it can discuss a significant problem in an objective and straightforward manner, without destroying the inherent qualities that make it, above all, good theater...
...they got bad news. U.S. Steel had made a bid for the Government-owned Oklahoma mines, which supplied coal to Lone Star. (There was no suitable coal in Texas.) If Big Steel, which wanted the coal for its Sheffield fabricating plant in Houston, got the mines, Lone Star was done for. Was Big Steel bigger than Texas...
Return, sweet Chaos: come, the Bad Old Days Before the Wise Men watched about our ways, When Ministers had not annoyed the Sun, Not much was Planned, but many things were Done . . . Come, even loathly Private Enterprise...
...down. Begone, Economist: no more profess To play with Cheeses as you play at Chess. . . . Come, lovely Chaos: come, the Bad Old Days, Before the Wise Men watched about our ways, When Ministers had not enraged the Sun, Not much was Planned but many things were Done...