Word: finneganisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...terms of almost everything in myth and history. Miss Manning has been wise in not attempting this, for the result could only be tedious and disastrously confusing. Her arrangement retains a circular form, opening and closing with the members of the wake gathered about the omnipresent coffin-cradle of Finnegan. She has made Shem the Penman spokesman for her piece, and although his antithetical brother Shaun is absent as an explicit character, he does appear in his incarnations of Ondt and Jaunty Jan during the H. C. Earwicker dream sequences. The theme of the river-mother, Anna Livia, is powerfully...
...weakest of the major performances, and fails adequately to show the importance of his growing awareness toward the close of the play. Supporting performances of note include those of John Hezlitt, Whitney Haley as the magistrate, Joseph Mitchell as the man from Boston, and Jack Rogers and Ed Finnegan in unusually credible comic portrayals...
...Joseph F. Finnegan, 51, was nominated for director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (TIME, Nov. 22), succeeding Whitley P. McCoy, who resigned. A graduate of Columbia ('28) and Fordham Law School ('31), Finnegan helped pay his way through school by writing a question-and-answer column for investors in the Wall Street Journal and working on Brooklyn piers as a cargo checker. After a three-year stint as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Manhattan, he joined a private law firm, and in 1948 hung out his own shingle. As background...
...creates the picture of the persecuted wife, quite proud of her own suffering. Other members of the cast could be singled out for varying degrees of competency. Catherine Huntington, for instance, contributes a fine monologue in the last act, as she reads to an insane Doctor swift. And Edward Finnegan is suitably foolish as the pompous Dr. Berkley...
...first ballot Butler won easily, rolling up 70 votes. DiSalle got 18 votes, Finnegan...