Word: keefer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...miscast as Lt. Barney Greenwald, counsel for the defense, in many ways the focal character of the play. He carries the part with a brashness and at times a gaucherie that seems entirely unfitted to the role, although he has a few redeeming moments. James Putnam as Lt. Thomas Keefer, male-volent, sarcastic intellectual, shows some signs of having thought about his part, although he tends toward overacting. The same might be said of David Galloway who is quite engaging in his brief appearance as Signalman Urban. William Balchelder as the senior officer of the court martial proceedings has excellent...
Grey Commander; George Nader, the Embittered Subordinate; Lex Barker, the Soft Socialite Hardened by War; William Reynolds, the Callow Youth Who Matures; Don Keefer, the Officer Who Goes to Pieces. Also present are the Good Padre, the Heroic Doctor, the Pugnacious Irishman and the Expectant Father...
...author. Barry Sullivan was savagely efficient as the attorney for the defense, but far less convincing in the final scene when he lauds Queeg as a maligned patriot; Frank Lovejoy seemed too intelligent to play the duped Lieut. Maryk, and Robert Gist struggled manfully with the role of Lieut. Keefer, the devious intellectual...
...development in the Boston mayoralty campaign was the statement issued by the heads of the University, Tufts and Boston University Medical Schools defending Hynes' "vigorous program" at Boston City Hospital. The statement, released by Deans George P. Berry, and Joseph M. Hayman of Harvard and Tufts, and Chester A. Keefer, director of the B.U. Medical School, answered the recent attack on the hospital program by powers...
These characters are not indicted because they are intellectuals, but because they are irresponsible. What Wouk is saying, in effect, is that if everyone acted like Keefer, armies would fall apart, and wars would be lost. If everyone acted like Airman, marriages, families and society would crumble. These are platitudes, but they are the platitudes (as Wouk has Willie Keith say) of "growing...