Word: oed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Schiff Saint-Gaudens, 78, longtime (1922-50) Director of Fine Arts for Pittsburgh's Carnegie Institute; in Miami. The son of Sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens and a first cousin once removed of Painter Winslow Homer, Homer Saint-Gaudens was first a journalist, next entered the theater, directed Eugene O'Neill's Beyond the Horizon. As a fine-arts specialist, he knew the touch of the poet, once said: "What garlic is to salad, insanity...
Muscle-Bound Mind. The aroused astronomer carried his war to the BBC last week, got vigorous bene and male from the press. The Daily Telegraph cried O tempora, O Lyttleton: "There could be no worse argument in favor of this jejune and illiberal measure than that Latin is a dead language and should therefore remain dead . . . The truth is that the study of Latin is a training for the muscles of the mind." But the Daily Mirror's Cassandra argued that Latin had muscle-bound his mind. He began by declining mensa (table), then wrote: "This nonsense I have...
FROM THE TERRACE, by John O'Hara. The biggest (897 pages), most ambitious novel of a writer who takes himself more seriously than it is possible to take his most recent books. A potentially nice rich kid from O'Hara's Pennsylvania runs short on character, presumably because of the sins of the father and the social disarrangements of his own time. The O'Hara ear for speech has the relentless giveaway of a tape recorder-but it reels on too long. Head and shoulders above the year's run of the mill, but still...
PART OF A LONG STORY, by Agnes Boulton. Eugene O'Neill's second wife describes just a year and a half of her life with genius, but she makes it memorable. Great drunken sprees were wedged between great plays, and melodrama was always just around the living-room door...
...Touch of the Poet. A garrulous, alcoholic innkeeper, his dream world gone awry, gives Playwright Eugene O'Neill an excuse for a little too much talk, but the evening still adds up to fine theater. With Eric Portman, Helen Hayes, Kim Stanley...