Word: finneganisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard Band will give a charity concert tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 on the grounds of the Boston City Hospital. The program is sponsored by the Friends of the Hospital, and will feature compositions by Leroy Anderson '29 and John Finnegan '47, both alumni of the Band...
...years. His portrayal of Ally is remarkable; and the part is unusually long and demanding. Teena Starr is appealing as the young, lonely widow. Avril Gentles holds Sophie under control much of the time, but has a tendency to push her acting into burlesque. Donna Person and Edward Finnegan provide outstanding support...
Douglas Deane is a polished song-and-dance man. And Edward Finnegan (remembered for his fine portrayal in The Potting Shed at this theatre last summer) makes the most of the clergyman shocked to find that the words of "the Great Agnostic" can issue out of the mouths of babes. Adele Thane (also here in two plays last summer) brings the vigor of Margaret Rutherford to the part of the indolent maid...
...Democratic Party. Apart from instances of penny-ante skulduggery that resulted in resignations, a flock of damning charges turned into at least eight court convictions. Reconstruction Finance Corp. Loan Examiner E. Merl Young was convicted of perjury. Nailed, too, were Massachusetts Tax Collector Denis Delany (bribery), Missouri Collector James Finnegan (who collected legal retainers from firms doing business with the Government), former Commissioner of Internal Revenue Joseph Nunan Jr. (income tax evasion), California Deputy Collector Ernest M. Schino and Nevada's BIR Chief Field Deputy Patrick Mooney (conspiracy to defraud the Government). Two later catches, White House Appointments Secretary...
...verbal arrangements as to our usual view of action and motive. No one would deny even young writers the right to manipulate point of view and form, but it should be obvious that this can succeed only when it is based upon a mastery of the realistic method. Finnegan's Wake comes after Dubliners, and King Lear after Henry...