Word: rawness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Playwright Williams, 33, perhaps the surest weaver of vapors now writing for the U.S. stage, is a stocky, rather intense-looking fellow. He got that look, he explains, during his many years as a "rootless, wandering writer . . . clawing and scratching along a sheer surface and holding on tight with raw fingers"-years in which he worked as bellhop, elevator operator, movie usher, teletypist, warehouse handyman and verse-spieling waiter in a Greenwich Village bistro...
...Rate. To help ease the U.S. aluminum shortage, the State Department plans to cut the 3? tariff on Canadian aluminum to 2? and allow Aluminium Ltd. of Canada to sell raw aluminum at 14? a pound, the U.S. base price. This was bad news for Henry J. Kaiser's Permanente Metals Corp. and Reynolds Metals Co. Only last June, Reynolds shut down one plant and Kaiser canceled the opening of another to prevent overproduction. Now they were hastily attempting to reopen them...
Almost platitudinous has become the legend of the handicapped youth that makes good over all obstacles. Biographies of bank presidents, insurance company treasurers, and even Boston mayors are filed with barriers which only grit and raw courage could overcome...
...early reels of the film, in which horror crouches in the umbrageous palace like a beast in the jungle, divertingly atmospheric (though later the conviction abates); but the few who know James well, will-sensing in the film only "the triumph of the superficial and the apotheosis of the raw" which he so dreaded and adumbrated...
...treason trials, as she records them, were not just the raw pulp of daily news, tatters of irrelevant wretchedness or cold inquests of justice upon a succession of dingy destinies. They become three-dimensional-as events in a process of history, which Miss West views as organic and continuously alive; as ordeals of a common humanity, which the men on trial shared with the men who tried them; as glimpses of a common hell, which all men know (since all men betray themselves continually), but know less terribly than those traitors who in addition had betrayed their fellows...