Word: edwards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Odets' rage and revulsions are wasted: some of his Hollywood villains-including a cynical hatchetman and a ruthless cinemagnate (well played by Paul Mc-Grath and J. Edward Bromberg) are vividly caught or caricatured. Now & then, along with some "poetic" writing that is as unpleasantly conspicuous as a nose ring, a lively crack comes forth. But most of The Big Knife is as unfocused as it is violent; it is full of curses not deep but loud, of intemperate and untidy theatrics. And Castle's particular predicament is far too unusual to mean anything. He is surely...
Though the auditorium was already filled when he walked on stage, Mr. Edward Weeks, editor of the Atlantic Monthly, said that his main purpose was not to introduce the Sitwells as much as to talk until all latecomers had been seated. And to put the audience in the proper frame of mind for hearing poetry read, he said...
...same time, Mrs. Anna Gray was renamed treasurer, George dePinto renamed vice-president, and Edward Sugrue returned as secretary...
...wagons. "So we hung on to the back of ice wagons," says the Secretary of State, who enjoys recalling the "golden age of childhood." But Acheson could not help but bear some of the stamp of Father. No one who ever came in contact with the Rev. Edward Campion Acheson, later Bishop of Connecticut, came away without his imprint...
...while, A.Y.D. flourished. It had 63 chapters in colleges and universities, devoutly followed the party line. It attracted to its rostrums such well-intentioned notables as Edward G. Robinson, Norman Corwin, the late Brigadier General Evans Carlson of Carlson's Raiders. On the campuses, left-wingers, new discoverers of the world of politics and plain Communists joined up. Then, after the war (and the departure of Browder to the darkness reserved for deviationists), things began to change...