Word: homeness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Drove home persuasively the point that, much as the U.S. wants peace and friendship, it cannot and will not be pushed around-and that in the nuclear age, attempts to push around add up to deadly folly...
...November some of his would-be followers got disgusted with his teaching, drove him out of town. He set up permanent headquarters in Chicago, preached against the white man's draft registration in World War II. When FBI agents tracked him to his mother's Chicago home in September 1942, they found him rolled up in a carpet under her bed. He was in federal prison at Milan, Mich, for draft dodging until 1946, later made a play for recruits among ex-convicts. His New York leader, Malcolm X, once Malcolm Little, is an ex-convict...
Sure enough, waiting at Leningrad airport was a friendly, waving crowd-including one Red Chinese who mystified all present by grabbing Nixon's hand and blurting out an apparently cheery but unintelligible greeting. Politician Nixon proceeded to give Politician Kozlov a boost with the home folks. "Mr. Kozlov," Nixon informed the crowd, "told me several times that one cannot come to the Soviet Union without visiting Leningrad." "Da!" interjected Kozlov loudly as his fellow citizens chuckled. "These are your constituents," grinned Nixon...
...title role (originally created by Monty Woolley and later played on tour by Woollcott himself) of the man who came to dinner at an Ohio small-town home, had a bad fall, and is enwheelchaired there for a few weeks, this production enjoys the services of Earle Edgerton, a veteran of dozens of local shows. He brings his own excellences to the outrageous personage with the slashing wit and excoriating tongue; saying and doing such things as the rest of us dare only do in our minds, he cantankers his way through the role like a bull-slinger...
...major success of the evening is due to a dynamic and powerful performance by Robert J. Lurtsema as Eddie Carbonne, the Italian longshoreman. When Eddie allows two of his wife's immigrant cousins who have entered the country illegally to stay in his home until they get settled, the younger cousin, Rudolpho, falls in love with Eddie's niece, Catherine, whom he has raised with over-protective care. When Rudolpho, who enjoys singing, sewing, and cooking, as well as working on the piers, is accused by Eddie of being a homosexual seeking to marry only for his citizenship papers...