Word: irwin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fire Down Below. Scriptwriter Irwin Shaw concocts a fast-paced yarn of the Caribbean, punctuates it with lust, betrayal and revenge; with Robert Mitch um, Rita Hayworth, Jack Lemmon (TIME, July...
...DEAD JOCKEY, AND OTHER STORIES (242 pp.)-Irwin Shaw-Condom House...
...novelist (The Young Lions, Lucy Crown) and dramatist (Bury the Dead, The Gentle People), Irwin Shaw has set no worlds afire. But there are few American writers who can match him for consistent readability and excitement in the field of the short story. His famous The Girls in Their Summer Dresses (1939) says nearly all that there is to say about urban love; his vengeful Sailor Off the Bremen, after 18 years, is still powerful enough to make a reader wince. This new collection never quite reaches the same heights, but is similarly concerned with love and adventure, is written...
...Irwin Shaw, 44, has commuted between France, Switzerland and Italy for the past six years, is now as studiously nonpolitical as he was formerly tumultuously partisan. His current work reflects his present detachment; it is blander than before, as accomplished as ever but less impassioned. But so are the times, and Author Shaw seems to argue between the lines that he still holds up a mirror to life, and cannot put more into his stories than his mirror shows...
Sturdiest big-business foe of the bill was Cummins' Board Chairman J. Irwin Miller, 47. "The classic argument against the union shop," Miller told a gathering of Dartmouth College students last year, "is the right-to-work argument. The average American manager feels that there is a character known as the 'loyal employee,' and this is a fellow who is supposed to figure that joining the union is a fate worse than death. Well, this man is in the same category, in my opinion, as the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus. I've never found...