Word: leuchtenberg
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Klein, in the lead, manages to portray the understanding of the returned prodigal gently and sympathetically. Pierre Leval and Alan Goodrich, as the father and the elder brother, also succeed in creating strong characters of brief parts. Tom Harrington burned youthfully as the younger brother, and only Olga de Leuchtenberg faltered in her role as the mother...
...because an election year is coming up and maybe they'll get a worse bill. They attack these bills for the wrong reason. They say that it's all right to stop the Communists from talking, when in reality no one should be denied the right of free speech." Leuchtenberg himself was attacked as a Communist for his ADA connections while at Smith...
Although he thinks that today's liberal should take more active stands, Leuchtenberg feels that "there has been an unforunate tendency to despise the armchair liberal." He believes that liberals should sit down and entirely revamp their thinking before they take any more hasty actions...
...that he has a five-year appointment at Harvard, Leuchtenberg hopes to settle down to the business of teaching, "writing a biography of Brand Whitlock, reform Mayor of Toledo in the early 1900's, and doing research for certain liberal members of the Massachusetts Legislature." He wants to run for office himself, but "not in the near future...
...Besides politics," Leuchtenberg says, "my only other hobbies are following the Brooklyn Dodgers (I must have listened to all 154 games last year) and reading the CRIMSON every morning at 11:00 a.m. over a cup of coffee at Hazen...