Word: things
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...First thing Rube did was to ask the Sun for hints on editorial policy. He was given a list of orthodox Republican likes and dislikes, touched up with a heavily jocular postcript: "Dear Rube: We also in theory favor truth and beauty and oppose rape and cannibalism...
...theatre around him does not interest Odets much. He goes to about three shows a year. He has stopped reading all playwrights but Shakespeare and Ibsen: "I have nothing to learn from American plays any more." Acting he calls "a whorish thing." But now & then he would like a good part in someone else's play, simply to retain his feel of the stage...
Mainly Opinions. In 1935 Odets led a party to Cuba to investigate its dictatorship, was promptly arrested, soon after deported. Odets now chiefly furthers his beliefs through his writings. Says he: "People can only do one thing at a time. A writer must write. Besides, it is not the explosion that should most concern the artist-it is the causes leading...
...Jabez Curry Street and Edward Carl Stevenson of Harvard also vouched for the existence of this queer entity. At first there seemed to be no place for it in the physical scheme. Then it was recalled that the Japanese physicist, Yukawa, had postulated the existence of just such a thing to help explain energy exchanges in the atomic nucleus. In honor of Yukawa, there is a tendency in Europe to call the particles yukons. The name barytron ("heavy particle") is gaining favor in the U. S. At the American Physical Society's convention in Chicago last week, barytrons were...
Said Broadcaster Vandiveer: "The only-thing we have to guide us is the truth...