Word: joads
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cast, however, tries a little too hard to achieve the spontaneous earthiness of the Okies, but the acting is generally capable. Henry Fonda as Tom Joad, who has to kill in his concern for his fellow man, and Jane Darwell as Tom's mother, whose only concern is to keep her family together, are particularly competent. Although the Okies are represented sympathetically, the characters are not really developed as people, but serve more as vehicles of idea expression. This is an even more noticeable fault than it was in Steinbeck's novel. The concern with idea expression seems especially artificial...
Died. Dr. Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad, 61, popular philosopher, author (The Book of Joad, The Testament of Joad and 46 other serious-to-potboiling books), University of London professor; of cancer; in London. Puffin-shaped, goat-bearded and brilliantly voluble ("I can explain anything to anybody"), C. E. M. Joad was variously a socialist, pacifist, patriot, agnostic, advocate of free love, polygamy, euthanasia, suicide and easy divorce, and a professional carper. On scientific progress: "The superman made the plane, but the ape has got hold of it." On religion: "Why, if God so loves us, does He give us such...
...Tory politics (at which he still worked closely with Woolton). He became public-relations director for the Ministry of Works, and later boss of Britain's veterans' resettlement program. He started his own firm of business consultants and, with Julian Huxley and C.E.M. Joad, was on the panel of BBC's famed Brains Trust program...
...Joad and A. J. Ayer...
...weekly column in the London Sunday Dispatch, Britain's Professor Cyril E. M. Joad began by answering a simple question about the clothing of American children visiting England with the British war-bride mothers. But he soon dived into deeper issues: "[American fashions for children are] terrible, aren't they? Little boys of seven . . . dressed in check suits, long trousers, and blue trilby hats . . . cowboy suits . . . bobby socks ... violent tartans ... Poor little brutes! Eating their cake too early, they will get through it too quickly . . . It is precisely this too-early maturity in ... manners, customs, habits and dress...