Word: idyl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Johnson virtually told a serialized story of their adventures for 25 years in the South Seas, Africa, Borneo. But because Osa Johnson also makes a companionate idyl of their life together, many a reader will agree that their adventures are worth telling twice...
...sentimental tour of Manhattan, spells danger for the stabbing, rebellious talent that made history on Broadway, it reveals, all the same, that the talent still exists. No two plays in one season could superficially have more in common than Odets' Night Music and Elmer Rice's Manhattan idyl, Two on an Island. But where Rice, turned slickster, wears false face and speaks in falsetto, Odets still talks like Odets, can still be ardent, can still make a line ring out like a pistol shot, or a phrase cut like a knife to the bone. There are genuinely vivid...