Word: dwelling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Incredible" Job. The Christian Century's drama critic, the Rev. Tom F. Driver, who also teaches Practical Theology at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, criticized MacLeish for making his play a non sequitur by jumping down from the theological discussion between God and Satan to dwell upon J.B.'s purely human sufferings...
...attic, a "cave" where he can "agonize in secret," buys some paper, a Waterman Ideal pen, a bed, a mug, a plate, a crate of oranges and a sack of coarse oatmeal. Except that he is "tired and sick to death of all people who on earth do dwell," he has no enemy in the world. But soon he has plenty. They range from "rhypokondylose* violent stultified editors" to literary agents who are "effete homuncules" or "detected Jesuit's jackals...
California's thrice-married, twice-divorced Melvin Belli (rhymes with dwell I), 51, knows exactly what he is talking about. He is the recognized if not the revered leader in the most phenomenal field of U.S. law: personal injury. In the last ten years, average jury awards in personal-injury suits have soared by a spectacular 266%. His worst enemies admit, indeed insist, that flamboyant Melvin Belli, who has won more than 100 cases in the past decade with awards exceeding $100,000. is the lawyer most responsible...
...heart from the purse, the ambitions from the conventions, the rigid rules of the game from the fibbing, cheating gambits of the desperate players. The game is tough often to the point of grimness, but it is always comedy, never tragedy. "Let other pens," wrote plain Jane coolly, "dwell on guilt and misery...
...most part, Barzun insists, the mystery story is in trouble. His explanation: the detective story is a "parasite" of the novel, and when the serious novel itself "concentrates on the whacky," as it does today, and "starts from the conviction that society and all who dwell in it are disagreeable and worthless," the detective story is simply thrown off its feed. Good detective fiction needs "a world that we accept because it is conventional . . . Why pursue the criminal if the victim and society are not worth protecting...