Word: ruggedness
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The Corps' commander, rugged sy-year-old Major General Keller Emrick Rockey. veteran of World War I, Haiti, and Nicaragua, had bossed the 5th Division at Iwo Jima. His China mission, as he saw it: clean out the Japs, secure the ports for the arrival of U.S. ships with...
The Rugged Path (by Robert E. Sherwood; produced by The Playwrights' Company) represents Robert Sherwood's first playwriting in five years and Spencer Tracy's first Broadway play acting in 15. Something so newsworthy should add up to something more notable.
The destroyer is sunk in the Pacific, but Morey reaches an island held by a small U.S. and native guerrilla group. He has a chance to be sent home on a submarine; but having found new faith in the rugged decency of simple men, he begs to stay on and...
The Rugged Path, in its materials, is a kind of odyssey of the war years; in its intellectual content, a kind of leafing through the liberal testament ; in its credo, an affirmation of average human decency.
It has an elaborate itinerary but only the vaguest destination. Its hero is some times protagonist, sometimes symbol, sometimes Robert E. Sherwood, but - in spite of Actor Tracy's very natural, likable, occasionally vigorous performance-never quite a flesh-&-blood human being. One trouble with The Rugged Path is...