Word: hearted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...four Odets plays to appear on Broadway in 1935, Awake and Sing depicts a Bronx Jewish family of the early depression, stifled by conditions they won't try to change. Jacob, the grandfather, has taken what little Marx he knows to heart, and implores his family to leave the world better off than when they found it. But it takes Jacob's death--an apparent suicide--to convince his two grandchildren, Hennie and Ralph, to free themselves...
Died. Wladyslaw Tykocinski, 46, top-ranking Polish diplomat who defected to the West in 1965; of an apparent heart attack; in Washington, D.C. Finding "only a cynical exploitation of human opportunism and fear" in Poland, Tykocinski turned himself in to a U.S. Army sergeant in West Berlin, quitting his strategic post as head of the Polish Military Mission in West Berlin. Stung by his defection, a military tribunal in Warsaw last year tried him in absentia and sentenced him to death...
...Seuss" and mother to his zany literary menagerie of Grinches, Nerkles, and Star-Belly Sneetches; of undetermined causes; in La Jolla, Calif. As an American at Oxford in 1925, she urged her boy friend, Ted Geisel, to devote himself to his whimsical doodles. Geisel took her advice to heart, married her as well, and as Dr. Seuss, published 27 books...
Died. Ruth Fuller Sasaki, 74, Zen Buddhist scholar and first Westerner admitted to the Rinzai Zen priesthood; of a heart attack; in Kyoto, Japan. She began to follow Zen after a 1930 sightseeing trip through China and Japan and migrated to Japan in 1950 to open a study center. Convinced of her sincerity, the Zen Buddhists later ordained her as a priestess in charge of her own temple...
Whether in devastated wartime London or an overgrown jungle throbbing to the heart of the matter, the landscape of Graham Greene's novels is inexorably arid and sere. Yet in the midst of a life that is rather worse than purgatory and scarcely better than hell, his characters are touched by a vagrant grace. The Comedians, for which he wrote a script based on his novel, is Greeneland all over again, this time in Haiti. Off a ship and into the damned, doomed country walk three anonyms: Brown, Jones and Smith...