Word: lovely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...confused because a materialistic society pulls them one way, their instincts another. But in Rocket to the Moon psychological dislocations result from a clash of temperaments, a lack of drive. And Odets will not stay with his plot. He pursues a mystical theme which overrides it: the need for love to vitalize human lives. Inoculated with this virus, his characters cease to be individuals in a specific situation, turn into orators, poets, philosophers who halt the action to harpoon the cosmos...
Those were romantic years. In Philadelphia a girl said: "Every girl should have one Clifford Odets in her life." In Springfield, Mass., there was a "horrible, exquisite" love affair "with something of the Sorrows of Werther about it." In Manhattan there was an unheated railroad flat near Tenth Avenue which Odets shared with eight other people. (The last time this flat was mentioned in print, the landlord wrote to Odets: "You still owe us money.'') Coal for the stove being expensive, the roomers sat around wrapped in blankets. Odets mastered the art of making potato pancakes...
...Odets remarked: "Mozart was a young genius, too." Odets no longer has the same interest in gadding about, hooking up with celebrities, asserting his importance. Today most of his close friends are members of the Group. Most of his spare time is spent at home-playing the gramophone. His love for music is ebullient, a little showy. "A good composer was lost," he once said, "when I took up writing...
...their heads over "that Simpson boy," Chris was taken to the University of Michigan's Neuropsychiatric Institute clinic for four weeks' observation. According to Clarence F. Ramsay, superintendent of the Children's Institute, Chris is typical product of a home where there has been neither parental love nor discipline...
Bronzed, beauteous Alice Marble, No. 1 U. S. woman tennis ace, spent five days having her face "peeled" of its sunburn in order to sing professionally at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria. Her repertoire includes: I See Your Face Before Me, Two Sleepy People, This Can't Be Love...