Word: melvyn
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This is a dissertation on the law at the Supreme Court level, but within the province of dramatic jurisprudence it is a draggy, flaccid, unconvincing brief. First Monday in October is having its premiere at the Cleveland Play House, and if Jean Arthur and Melvyn Douglas were not in it, the play's obituary might well be written at the same time...
...hero, Justice Daniel Snow (Melvyn Douglas) is inspired by William O. Douglas. The heroine, Ruth Loomis, played by Jean Arthur, is quite simply hatched from the current foofaraw over women's lib. She is the first woman to be appointed a Justice of the Supreme Court. Her late husband, whose views she apparently shares, was a conservative of the Neanderthal stripe. Obviously, she irks Justice Snow. One of the internal contradictions of the play is that Snow, despite his liberal views, is some thing of a chauvinistic fossil when it comes to accepting women on the high bench...
...Paul Newman as a rich, arrogant Texan. With Oscar-winning performances from Melvyn Douglas and Patricia Neal. Ch. 7, 11:45 p.m. B/W, 2 hours...
Though living in two worlds-and sometimes mastering both-can be exhilarating, it can also be agonizing. A certain schizophrenia comes all too easily. "There is no consistency between my social life and my business life," complains Melvyn Huckaby, a Houston oral surgeon who lives among whites and works among blacks. "I'm on the front line all the time. It depresses me." The demands of middle-class life have produced some new strains. Says Thomas Freeman, director of continuing education at Texas Southern University: "All through high school and college I was told that blacks do not commit...
Living in Vermont with her husband of 42 years, Actor Melvyn Douglas, the ex-politico has been watching the Watergate hearings and raking up old memories. Among them: voting against a House resolution that would have forced all Executive agencies to make confidetial information available to Congress−a bill fellow California Representative Nixon voted...