Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After years in the national doghouse, Howard Fast renounced Communism, and is now thoroughly rehabilitated: this week he sold another novel to the movies, to be made into a $4,000,000 epic of sin, slaughter, and spectacle (not socialism) in ancient Rome. The history of Fast's career provides disturbing evidence of the existence in America of an informal conspiracy, not so much to prevent the dissemination of Communist propaganda, as to prevent Communist artists from making a living...
During the forties, Fast was one of our leading historical novelists, but with the rise of the anti -Communist movement his reputation sank with a thud. He had trouble finding publishers, and when his books were published they were ignored by nearly all reviewers. After years as a respected, reviewed, widely-discussed writer, Fast found himself surrounded by silence...
...screened porch) to $16,260 (three bedrooms, living-dining area, two baths, garage, terrazzo floors, tile roof). The Mackles try to avoid the project look that afflicts many mass building areas by laying out streets in winding arcs, alternating models, setting houses at different angles, and surrounding them with fast-growing trees and shrubbery...
...hurt the varsity most was shutouts in both dashes, the 880, and the mile relay, all of which coach Bill McCurdy had relied on as Crimson point-gainers. Sandy Dodge had a bad day in the dashes, and Art Cahn was tired for the 880 after running a very fast qualifying heat against Yale's John Slowik, who won the main event...
...performance of the season against Williams last week, but injuries again were a major factor in the defeat. Dick MacKinnon guarded the nets gamely, in spite of a shoulder separation suffered in practice Thursday, but on at least four goals he just couldn't raise his stick fast enough to block the shot...