Word: joads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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London critics packed off to Birmingham last week for the opening of a play by Author -Professor -Philosopher -BBC "Brains Truster" Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad, who once asserted he could "explain anything to anyone." Just before the curtain went up, Playwright Joad stepped out on stage and informed the critics: "It's an awful bad play. If I were you I'd go see the film across the street." After listening to assorted maunderings on marriage, Freud, religion, the machine age and Bernard Shaw, the critics wished they had taken Joad's advice...
...editor of your page on People [TIME, Dec. 17] must be hard up for copy and cuts when he has to fall back on a 13-year-old photo of my friends Joad and Price, and serve it up as current gossip. This photo was taken in a private museum in Chiswick, London, England, on Sept...
Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad, 54-year-old philosopher and British Information-Pleaser, whose photogenic satyr-beard has long been familiar to British newspaper readers, displayed a little-known side of himself to the public. Occasion: a swimming party at a new youth hostel, which Philosopher Joad ceremoniously opened after an august arrival on horseback...
Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad, Brit ain's bubbling, goat-bearded ex-pacifist philosopher and mainstay of the BBC "Brains Trust" (British equivalent of In formation Please), was invited to speak at Cambridge University on international affairs, was greeted with tear and smoke bombs by student rioters who aimed to prevent him from speaking. Reason: in 1933, Joad had spoken at Cambridge in defense of the Oxford Union's once-famed resolution-"Not to Fight for King and Country...
Wendell Willkie, Hanson W. Baldwin, William C. Bullitt and others who have been slapped down by the Russian press were joined by unexpected company last week. Soundly slapped down by Izvestia were British ex-Pacifist philosopher Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad (The Adventures of a Young Soldier in Search of the Better World) and Harold Laski, British leftist economist, friend of Russia and sometime White House guest. Said Izvestia: "Meddling advisers." Their offense: signing a British National Peace Council petition urging a "strategy of mercy" toward Germany...