Word: ghosts
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Broadway Columnist Mark Hellinger got him a reporter's job at Hearst's Mirror and taught him to write short sentences that tugged at the heartstrings. Bishop tugged away off and on for twelve years at the Mirror, drifted through jobs as a ghost writer for Hellinger, became an editor at Collier's and ended up as a freelancer, mired in drink, depression and debt...
...insecure have always been fond of the oath as a way to enforce orthodoxy, to lay down a prior restraint upon people's opinions. During the 1950s the loyalty oath turned into a destructively pervasive American genre, with a legion of earnest patriots afoot, like the ghost in Hamlet, crying, "Swear...
...Ninotchka), Gloria Swanson (Tonight or Never) and Joan Crawford (A Woman's Face), Douglas shifted to first-rate character portrayals in such films as Billy Budd (1962), The Americanization of Emily (1964) and I Never Sang for My Father (1970). Douglas, who had just completed his 77th film, Ghost Story, which is scheduled for release in December, recently declared: "Much of what we did in the old days was junk. I don't share the intense nostalgia for those films that some people...
Such visions have blinked back to the public mind in recent weeks, since Israel buried Iraq's nuclear reactor and defended its action on the ground of "Never again." It referred to the Holocaust, which is Israel's frame of reference generally-the ghost of annihilation that shapes much of its foreign policy, temperament and attitude toward its neighbors. Two weeks ago, the Holocaust's survivors convened in Israel to keep the memory awake, in some cases to search for friends and relatives from whom they were torn away in places like Belsen, Auschwitz and the other...
...that big house, coming to terms with the fact that he left both legs behind in Viet Nam. But the newest play, which should have been the first, chronologically, just meanders, with no discernible destination. A telegram announces the death of Timmy, for instance, and Timmy's ghost (David Ferry) appears onstage to explain in interminable detail how he was blown to pieces on Saipan. Shakespeare pulled the same corny trick in Hamlet, but his ghost had a purpose. Wilson's does...