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There is British Novelist J. B. Priestley, who drew a harsh picture of New York (in which all too many New Yorkers could recognize themselves): "The lonely heart of man cannot come home there. It [New York] is filled with people who, after three quick drinks, begin to dream of somewhere else ... [It is] the expression perhaps of some titanic strain in the soul of modern man, making him feel uneasy when he remembers the gods...
...football coaches' luncheon this past Monday, Rip Engle was too busy at Providence to make a personal appearance. In his place, he sent Bob Priestley, end coach, to represent him. Priestley made one statement, "We're not going to pull any punches against Harvard...
...with a consuming hatred. English writers and visitors from west of the Hudson are continually appalled by it; by its dirt, its tip-hungry doormen, its bigness, its gangs of savage street urchins, and the humid horror of its tropical summers. To Britain's Novelist J. B. Priestley, Broadway is "an angry carbuncle ... a thoroughfare in Hell where you take your choice between idiotic films . . . and shops crammed with schoolboy tricks." Jean-Paul Sartre, the high priest of France's Existentialism, spoke of "this desert of rock" and also complained that he had seen roaches galloping through...
...Linden Tree (by J. B. Priestley; produced by Maurice Evans) has been running in London for seven months. On Broadway last week it folded after seven performances...
Playwright Priestley had used an English professor and his family for a symbolic blueprint of contemporary England. The professor's wife wants to break with provincial university life; one daughter seeks salvation in science, another in religion; a son can see no salvation in anything, and has turned cynically to ?.s.d. To the professor, the best thing for a country that has its back to the wall is to put its shoulder to the wheel. But nobody listens much to the professor (likably, gently played by Cinemenace Boris Karloff). Nor on Broadway did anybody listen much to Mr. Priestley...