Word: misbegotten
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...that the notions of orderly development of resources and maintenance of national parks as a public heritage were the misbegotten brain children of "long-haired New Dealers." Conservation through use-that's the ticket. By the way, whom do I see to enter a claim on Old Faithful? I've got a nifty idea for a private-enterprise laundry...
...MOON FOR THE MISBEGOTTEN (177 pp.)-Eugene O'Neill-Random House...
...been still for the better part of twelve years, Eugene O'Neill, ill with Parkinson's disease, has twice dipped into his backlog of unproduced plays. In 1946 Broadway saw The Iceman Cometh, which O'Neill had completed in 1939; A Moon for the Misbegotten, written in 1940, got its premiere in Columbus, Ohio in 1947. Moon for the Misbegotten opened to what the trade calls mixed notices, but played to good houses in Cleveland, St. Louis and Detroit, although Detroit demanded that such key terms as "whore," "bastard," "son of a bitch" and "blonde...
...Hogan is "misbegotten" because his spirit is as mean and hard as the rocky Connecticut land he farms. His daughter Josie is "misbegotten" because she weighs 180 Ibs. and stands 5 ft. n, "a big, rough, ugly cow of a woman." Landlord Jim Tyrone is "misbegotten" in the catalogue of Sigmund Freud; he has an Oedipus complex...
...Neill is more prolix than profound in handling his melancholy theme. But he has enlivened it with Irish brogue and blague. And even when its dramatic light is half-hidden under a bushel of theatrics, A Moon for the Misbegotten casts a brighter gleam than any new play which the past season brought to Manhattan's Grey White...