Word: lawd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Kosher blues, oh lawd...
...Lawd. Guilty, Lawd. Thank you, Lawd," says Nancy Mannigoe, lifting her eyes serenely above the Mississippi bar of justice at which she stands condemned for throttling a six-month-old infant to death in its crib. Nancy is a Negro ex-prostitute, but her crime is a mere postscript to the horror-gorged life of her mistress, the dead child's mother, who is enslaved to the devil in the flesh. Mrs. Gowan Stevens was formerly Temple Drake, society-girl heroine of Faulkner's novel Sanctuary, to which Requiem for a Nun is a sequel. While...
Williams seemed to want to purvey the image of our century's archetypal poet, a very complicated and often irresponsible but enchanting man as good, old, sweet, kind and tolerant Dylan, poet and good fellow, a few steps away from Mr. Chips or Robert Frost or De Lawd in Green Pastures. In short, Mr. Williams's choice of material and his rendition of it have a tinge of the sacdharine as well as a bit of pleasant nostalgia which fail in part to hit the personality of the man or be very characteristic of his work...
Green Pastures: With a deft Marc Connelly adaptation of his own 27-year-old The Green Pastures, a cast of talent and dignity headed by William Warfield as The Lawd, and superb singing, direction and color sets, NBC's Hallmark Hall of Fame went into the lists against a tough one last week−CBS's go-minute electronic botch of Mike Todd's exercise in mass gaucherie at Madison Square Garden (see PEOPLE). Everything was on the side of Green Pastures−except the audience. The results, according to Trendex: Heaven, 12.5; Sodom and Gomorrah...
...edition, De Lawd becomes The Lord; he speaks grammatically now, no longer smokes 10? see-gars, is not addressed by irreverent gamblers any more as Liver Lips or even High Pockets; instead they call him Preacher Man. According to a spokesman, the whole cast will speak with "a soft rural-type intonation" rather than the Negro dialect in Connelly's Pulitzer Prizewinning script. Nobody will wear a derby. Cain still slays Abel, but morals are tightened up all through Genesis, e.g., instead of getting high on his keg of whisky, Noah just gets rosy. Perhaps the unkindest cut will...