Word: throughness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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As for Mr. Chester and Mr. Weir, they must be accused either of being unacquainted with the facts or else of trying to conceal them in order to put the best possible appearance on their own activities. At best, they are the victims of the worst fallacies of wishful thinking...
Bill Bingham was not a ringer. He and Charley Brickley opened and operated a student laundry of the type found in many small colleges. Initiative and industry along proper channels will never be questioned; Bingham had both and successfully worked his way through Harvard in this manner.
A pervasive aroma of bitter hatred drifts through the whole picture, seeping deeper and deeper into the characters until, psychologically speaking, the sets are covered with the groaning bodies of the wounded. Perhaps the mental gore is overworked in spots, for climax follows climax with exhausting rapidity, putting considerable strain...
Any play gagged up by Kaufman takes hair-trigger handling to put it across. The production at the Copley, however, started off like a funeral procession. About the middle of the first act hope was fast fading when in whooped Erford Gage in a coon skin coat and the show...
The Fate of Man, finished last summer, is Wells's pre-war answer to a challenge to describe "the world as I see it and what is happening to it." Scanning the globe and the human ephemerae upon it from the point of view of a millionaire in years...