Word: sullens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Closing Door (by Alexander Knox; produced by Cheryl Crawford) is melodrama that raids psychopathology for its thrills. What its door is closing on, with what threatens to be a deafening bang, is the sanity of the hero. Sullen, suspicious, harrowed by dark memories, Vail Trahern (Alexander Knox) can still, after a quieting talk with his wife (Doris Nolan), agree to go to a sanitarium for treatment. Then, thrown off balance again, he runs off, has somebody else turn up at the sanitarium in his name, and steals back home to precipitate a ghastly mess...
...peace in steel let the U.S. Government turn its attention on John L. Lewis, whose seven-week-old soft-coal strike had passed the pinching stage and was really hurting. In Washington last week for a clandestine meeting with Federal Mediator Cyrus Ching, John L. was in a sullen but athletic mood. For 45 minutes he led newsmen on a comic-opera chase through midtown Washington, waddling through side doors and around corners like an amateur Sydney Greenstreet, climbing in & out of taxicabs, bouncing up & down in elevators...
Robert Lowry's first book, Casualty, published in 1946, was a story of stagnation in a U.S. Army camp in Italy, of sullen enlisted men, buck-passing officers, drunkenness, boredom, brief and fatal outbreaks of violence. His second, Find Me in Fire (1948), told of the return of a crippled soldier to his home town after the war, and of his inability to find a place for himself in it again. The Wolf That Fed Us, published earlier this year, was a collection of eight war stories, which had the spare narrative, the graphic power and something...
Said the Times: "It seems that the pregnant throbbing with which the romantic writers made such a play was not so very pregnant after all. Its eerie rhythm is not in fact relayed from campfire to campfire, nor does its sullen tattoo . . . disseminate throughout half a continent between dawn and dusk portentous tidings and dreadful, urgent calls to arms...
...chowder and apple pie were delicious: Herman would have enjoyed himself, the more so since the meeting followed one of his cardinal rules: "I plan to keep the alumni sullen, but not rebellious...