Word: sean
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hitler agreed not to invade the Polish Corridor adjoining Danzig. Last week Danzig Nazi gangsters hounded and harried candidates of other parties so mercilessly that Danzig Socialists and members of Danzig Catholic Center Party had to hold their political rallies just outside the Free City on Polish soil. Irish Sean Lester, the resident High Commissioner of the League of Nations in Danzig, tried to uphold the right of free speech last week but was met with guffaws by new Danzig Nazi Premier Dr. Arthur Greiser...
Best play-Within the Gates by Sean O'Casey (TIME...
...Unitarians, Congregationalists and Episcopalians own Boston, but the Irish Catholics run it. Ordinarily a man named O'Casey, be he a saloonkeeper, a fisticuffer or a bicycle racer, might expect a warm Irish welcome in the capital of Massachusetts. Yet last week Sean (pronounced Shawn) O'Casey of Dublin found to his dismay that Boston would have none of his play, Within the Gates (TIME...
Indignant advocates of freedom in art are roused by the latest ban placed upon Sean O'Casey's play by the Mayor of Boston in the role of dramatic critic. This censorship is not particularly important in itself. Only as it reflects the movement that is prevalent in some parts of the country to impose certain moral standards upon plays, movies, and books, does it merit any wrathful outburst...
Your apostrophic editorial of last Friday concerning the crack-down on Sean O'Casey's play, written in understandable indignation at Boston's occasional stupidity in the matter of censorship, runs a little wild in matters of fact. I take it, from your reference to the critics, that you haven't read the play; in any case, I beg to differ with your statement that it has been termed "great" by the "most experienced dramatic critics in the United States." Some of them said that, some said quite the contrary, most were agreed that it was considerably inferior...