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...ponders some escape. After all, Sherwood Anderson was 36 when he quit running an Ohio paint factory and started writing fiction. Gauguin was a sometime Parisian broker of 43 when he ran off to paint and wench in Tahiti. Should he dye his hair, have an affair, get divorced, quit his job? But how can he sacrifice that pension, that company-paid insurance? What girl wants him? What new employer...
THIRTY years ago, when American intellectuals were talking European politics instead of the other way round, some of our better known play-wrights wrote with glaring naivete about countries and people they had no right to understand. Several noteworthy plays issued from this preoccupation-- Robert Sherwood's Idiots' Delight, Lillian Hellman's Watch on the Rhine--but they were marked either by inaccuracy, as in Sherwood's case, or by vagueness, as in Hellman's. The heart of America's fascination with fascism was ignorance, and to be alert and liberal was less than to be knowledgable...
...LEGEND OF ROBIN HOOD (NBC, 7:30-9 p.m.). Sherwood Forest comes to life again as Robin Hood (David Watson) and his band (Noel Harrison, Walter Slezak, Bruce Yarnell) make merrie to the music of Sammy Cahn and James Van Heusen. Cast includes Roddy McDowall, Steve Forrest, Victor Buono, and Douglas Fairbanks Jr., singing and swashbuckling through 12th century England...
...ideal forum for his views, and he made the monthly one of the nation's most persuasive organs of Protestant opinion. Even after he retired two years ago, Poling stayed active as head of the Christian Herald Charities, which operates the 83-year-old Bowery Mission. Playwright Robert Sherwood once said of Poling that "the whole United States is his parish." It might better have been said, the whole world...
English 276. Robert Anderson, Sherwood Anderson, Robert Sherwood, and Maxwell Anderson. M., W., F. at 10. Dr. R. S Maxwell