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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Conspicuously high-placed Communists in British unions: Arthur Homer, general secretary of the Mineworkers; Jim Gardner, general secretary of the Foundry Workers; Abe Moffat, president of the Scottish Mineworkers. Seventy out of 833 delegates to the last Trades Union Congress were Communists, as are eight of the 33 members of Deakin's own executive board...
...Arizona in the spring of 1947, nursing a troublesome sinus on his 20,000-acre ranch near Sonoita, when the call came from George Marshall. Douglas' name had been proposed for the ambassadorship to Great Britain after the death of Ambassador-designate O. Max Gardner. But the Democratic hatchetmen were against him. Harry Truman told George Marshall that the political ramifications of his appointment would be serious. Replied George Marshall: "The political ramifications will be a lot more serious if this Administration appoints an inferior man as Ambassador to Britain at this time." Marshall won his point...
Eastward in Eden (by Dorothy Gardner; produced by Nancy Stern) is the third play (the others: Alison's House, Brittle Heaven) to treat of New England's renowned recluse, Poetess Emily Dickinson (1830-86). By now it should be clear that Emily, whose life was as inward as it was intense, is not the likeliest sort of figure for the public glare of the stage...
Eastward in Eden is mostly concerned with what made her a recluse. According to Playwright Gardner, it was her unrequited love for Charles Wadsworth, a married Philadelphia clergyman. Even as a stage romance, there was very little story. Emily (attractively played by Beatrice Straight) met Wadsworth (Onslow Stevens) when she was 23. In the next few years they corresponded regularly and met briefly at intervals. Then Wadsworth prudently bowed out and went off to a distant pulpit in California...
After that, the once vivacious Emily led a partly shattered, wholly shuttered existence. She never again left her house and garden. Her life became the hundreds & hundreds of poems-many without form but few without magical phrasing-that made her, among other things, a "humorist of agony." Playwright Gardner writes of Emily appreciatively enough, but Eastward in Eden is neither very poetic nor very dramatic, and is often downright dull...