Word: reade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...after his mother had enrolled him in speaking classes. He was an R.A.F. wireless operator in World War II, was shot down, and spent a year in a German prison camp. After some postwar repertory and lots of television, he was about to sign a film contract when he read the script of The Caretaker. The play paid him ?10 a week at London's Arts Theater Club; it proved such a hit that it moved to a larger commercial house and ran for more than a year...
...others is continually drawn back to the enigmatic, mesmerizing personality of Oppenheimer. He describes a young scientist so lost in the abstractions of physics that he once drove an automobile up the courthouse steps of a Western town, a man so unworldly that he had no radio, did not read newspapers and first heard about the 1929 stock-market crash months after it happened...
...Reasoner's partner, Mike Wallace, interviewed Attorney General Ramsey Clark for the cover story, "Cops." An overseas segment picked up some pointed remarks on U.S. politics from, among others, British Satirist Malcolm Muggeridge. And Columnist Art Buchwald contributed a miniessay on how journalists size up public opinion (they read each other's copy...
...destroying himself. Deserting his post, he reels off in a grog-soaked bender and chops down a flagpole with an ax. Based on a drama by British Playwright John McGrath, The Bofors-Gun whirls to an ironic, literal climax that leaves the viewer more with the sense of having read a script than experienced a film. But there is nothing flat or literary about Williamson's biting representation of a human being tormented by both God and man, who in the end chooses neither...
...author, an able freelance book reviewer, has obviously read a lot of fiction. That alone, however, is no guarantee of success when the critic turns novelist. Greenfeld's hero is a Jewish boy from Brooklyn becalmed on the long voyage to a Ph.D. He marries a Japanese painter, and they go to live near her parents in Japan. Like so many young men in novels these days, he pokes and prods his identity obsessively; after a few months in Japan he worries that he still feels like a New Yorker...