Word: fighting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...singles out cross-eyed, spiritually tormented Joe Bonaparte (Luther Adler), studies his indecision between the violin and pugilism, traces the gradual disintegration of his character in the brutish environment of the ring, and brings him finally to the realization that the false ideals and broken hands of the fight game have ruined his chances for happiness, broken his father's heart...
Odets' characters are most forceful when they speak the salty idiom of the street, least effective when he hoists them on flights of unnatural rhetoric. Most idiomatic performers in Golden Boy were: Robert Lewis, as the flat-voiced, grasping fight promoter, Roman Bohnen, a typical shoestring manager, and Jules Garfield, recruited from the lead of Having Wonderful Time, as a wisecracking taxi driver. Despite the handicap of an unbecoming Italian accent, the Group Theatre's veteran Morris Carnovsky is the convincingly pathetic Old World parent, bewildered by a reckless new generation. Hollywood's Frances Farmer, who spent...
...winning fight in Cheyenne had not kept both of Publisher McCraken's hands busy. Between 1927 and 1932 he had bought and made daily tabloids of the weekly Newcastle News-Letters and Rock Springs Rocket. These followed the pattern of the Eagle: breezy style, plenty of comics, big, black type and Democratic politics. To keep his papers on their toes, Publisher McCraken made each local manager a part owner...
Died. Jack McAuliffe, 71, retired (1893) undefeated world's lightweight boxing champion, one of the last of the bareknuckle boxers, who fought James Carney (1887) for 74 rounds before a gamblers' riot broke up the fight, and whose records indicated he never lost a match; of a throat ailment; in Forest Hills...
...book contains at least one very good passage: the description of the street fight and chase in which Caley receives his death wound. Most readers will agree that Caley in his bedazzled guilelessness, his dumb trustingness, is basically well conceived. It is in the development of the story that things go astray, and it is the author's wavering method of attack that causes the trouble. A love affair that starts hard-boiled ("Aw, come on. Give me a break. . . . We all get pushed around.") goes suddenly opalescent. (". . . A part of me that is still hard and stiff...