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This is not to detract, however, from the power of Curwood's later performance. His blood-curdling reliving of the murder of his mother--given in Dos Passos-like blank verse--was delivered with such intense personal involvement that the description of the knifing itself was almost orgasmic...
...foreign city than ever before. Such is the verdict of the annual survey of 23 cities around the world conducted by London's staid Financial Times. The Times reports that the basic cost of food, clothing, lodging and entertaining has gone up almost everywhere-and suggests a few dos and don'ts for the savvy...
...says, "what was new about the writers of the Thirties was not so much their angry militancy as their background. When you thought of the typical writers of the Twenties, you thought of rebels from 'good' families -Dos Passes, Hemingway, Fitzgerald Cummings, Wilson, Cowley. The Thirties were the age of the plebes-of writers from the working class, the immigrant class, the nonliterate class, from Western farms and mills-those whose struggle was to survive...
...discrimination in hiring and firing-was not to become law before the nation had a twelve-month period to study it. Last week Title VII finally went into effect. Hopefully the yearlong study period will pay off, for the new law is one of the most complex collections of dos and don'ts passed by Congress in many a stormy session...
...making, produced only one more picture-Farewell to Arms (1958) with Jennifer Jones. But semiretirement did little to modify his compulsive ways. For Farewell, he wore out three secretaries while dictating a total of 10,000 memos, ranging from single sentences to one 30 pages in length, all initialed DOS. He had worn out writers (16 for G.W.T.W., including briefly F. Scott Fitzgerald) and directors at the same pace. One director he approached, Nunnally Johnson, declined, saying, "My understanding is that an assignment from you consists of three months' work and six months of recuperation...