Word: finneganisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...James P. Finnegan, onetime collector in St. Louis, now serving a two-year term for bribery at the U.S. penitentiary at Terre Haute...
...Edward Finnegan plays a blind man who, among all the people, most clearly perceives the danger, and his groping gestures, never over-emphasized, add much to the play's tension. He sees through the eyes of a young girl, enchantingly played by Susan Howe...
...action takes place outside the walls of ancient Troy. The horse of the Greeks is seen, but few Trojans allow themselves to believe that the wooden animal 'is a ruse. The only person who clearly perceives the imminent danger is a blind poet, who will be played by Edward Finnegan. Finnegan is a director in the George Gersh win Workshop at Boston University...
...Louis, the court of appeals upheld the sentence for misconduct in office imposed last year on James P. Finnegan, 52, erstwhile U.S. Collector of Internal Revenue in St. Louis and glad-handed pal of Harry Truman's. Finnegan's mistake: accepting fees from private companies for his services in two cases involving the Government while he was a federal employee. His sentence: $10,000 fine, two years in prison...
...paragraphs that will soon be transferred verbatim to his notebooks. Like most authors, Wilder hates to write. Sometimes he plays hooky in the Yale library ("I flip through an archaeological journal and read a piece about a new excavation in Herculaneum. I even read medical journals"). He "does" Finnegan's Wake, pores over Kierkegaard, works at his hobby of dating the plays of Lope de Vega, strums on the piano, or reads a score of a Palestrina Mass. After lunch he usually takes a long nap. After 5, visitors come ("I like bustle after 5"). Then, pacing about...