Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kitchen-Table Autocrat. He is innocent of humor. His only joke that associates can recall was a remark made when he arrived at a Labor Party meeting from a diplomatic reception wearing striped trousers and a morning coat. He began his address to the meeting: "Comrades, please forgive my working clothes...
...full Anderson didn't seem to be overly concerned with who was coming and who was being deprived of theater because of high prices. "It's unfortunate" was about all he could muster. The problems of the playwright as a serious artist were passed over by the glib remark that all good plays are produced. And it might have been argued that Williams' independence of his director was admirable if he had a point. It seems as though he did when he decided for literary reasons to publish the original ending to his play...
...saddest of fictional sad sacks, called, of all things, Tyree Shelby. Soon Hemingway-type philosophy is being fed to him. Says Shelby's drunken C.O.: "You can't escape the sonsofbitches and the only choice you got is between sonsofbitches." Does the Hemingway manner work? Paraphrasing the remark Churchill is supposed to have made to his son Randolph ("Haven't you learned yet that I put more into my speeches than brandy?"), Papa Hemingway might well remind young (30) Novelist Hoffman that more goes into a Hemingway novel than just barrack-room talk...
...London, a Foreign Office Under Secretary of State, Lord John Hope, told Parliament that "what is happening in Jordan will pass over,'' a remark that deserved the week's prize for complacency in the face of peril. Pravda added its ruble's worth: "The people of this small country have acquitted themselves as courageous partisans against the new schemes of the imperialistic colonizers...
When planning his half year visit to Harvard, Siegfried had hoped to lecture on this topic of the future of civilization, but his schedule would not permit it. The professor, nevertheless, when free, is approachable on any subject. Those who meet him remark on his conversation which may include any topic from the Roman Catholic Church to workingmen's compensation. "In fact," noted Albert A. Mavrinac, the professor's unofficial guide, "Siegfried is interested in everything...