Word: shakespeareanisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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George Cooper Stevens is an unassuming, long-jawed, rugged roughneck with an innate intelligence (uninfluenced by formal education), an extreme sensitivity and a fine flow of good humor. He was raised in show business. His father, Landers Stevens, oldtime Shakespearean actor, was proprietor of a popular Pacific Coast stock company...
...forgetting to ham it, he played Romeo to his blooming daughter Diana's Juliet. He had coached her for a week and she was good. In the brief respite from radio routine, everyone felt the bond between father and daughter, the oddity of the old love poetry, the Shakespearean depths of grace...
...that gave James Joyce the sense that his book had a reader. Mr. Levin's volume on Joyce is designed to be read along with Joyce's works. On Joyce's powers of characterization, on his Swiftian moral grandeur, and on that almost Shakespearean humaneness which alone could delight the plainest of readers, he is obtuse as only a hyperintellectual can be. But on those intricate obscurities which put off most plain readers, and on Joyce as a technician and theorist, he has written the best guidebook and the most brilliant criticism to date...
Washington last week had a sample of that extraordinary man, who, like some astonishing Shakespearean character, full of great speeches and thundering images, appears only when the going gets hard. In 1940 he was hailing the merging of American and British interests: "Let it roll. Let it roll on in full flood, inexorable, irresistible, benignant, to broader lands and better days." By the end of 1941 he watched it rolling. U.S.-British cooperation, that had seemed a dim hope after Dunkirk had become a living reality...
...numerous Government agencies that wanted it. CBS elected to tell, each week, the story of whatever U.S. Government activity was uppermost in the news. Assigned to the job were CBS's clearheaded Washington correspondent, Albert L. Warner, and a producerdirector, Brewster Morgan, who had directed a Shakespearean theater in England, worked in Hollywood, got radio down cold in the Columbia Workshop...