Word: ephraim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...farm. To possess it. the sons wish their father dead, brother plots against brother, a young woman marries a fanatical old man, seduces his son to obtain an heir, and murders the infant to repossess the son's love. George C. Scott plays the fire-breathing old father Ephraim with monomaniacal force. As the woman, Colleen Dewhurst achieves a masterly transitional shading between feline will and wiles and the whole-souled vulnerability of love. Son Eben is played by Rip Torn, who unfortunately adopts a tone of flat understatement and clenched-nerves hysteria that tends to throw the play...
Died. George Ephraim Sokolsky, 69, foreign correspondent turned syndicated columnist, a militant conservative who was a fiery one-man front for capitalism; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Son of a New York rabbi and a student at Columbia Journalism School, he left to observe the Russian Revolution firsthand, got bounced from the country by the Soviets for his adverse editorial views, landed in China with one Yankee dollar in his pocket, and stayed 14 years in Asia as a correspondent, political adviser and friend of China's revolutionary leader, Dr. Sun Yatsen. Returning...
When he bobs his greying head and puckers his face into a smile, even his opponents have to grin back. He is easily the Senate's most amusing raconteur since Alben Barkley, whether he is quoting from the Bible, from Omar Khayyam, or Old Uncle Ephraim back in North Carolina's hill country...
...tensions when he speaks. He was still a freshman member of the Senate when, in 1954, the bitter Senate debate over the censure of Republican Joe McCarthy came up. At one point, when Senators seemed about to come to blows, Ervin arose. He told a typical tale about Uncle Ephraim. The poor old fellow had been tortured for years by arthritis. He was bent double as he sat in church one Sunday. The mountain preacher asked various members of the congregation what the Lord had done for them. All replied, in self-satisfying detail. Then the preacher pointed to Uncle...
...Connection are currently fighting censorship by the New York State Board of Regents; ironically, in a film that deals graphically with such themes as dope addiction and homosexuality, the Board of Regents objects only to the use of the word "shit," which appears twenty-eight times (Variety counted). When Ephraim London, who represents the producers, wins his court fight (he says he will take his case to the Supreme Court if necessary), the Board of Regents will discover that it has been good for business...