Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...editors for not giving enough space to foreign reporting. "I do not know what happens to an American reporter who is assigned to foreign fields," says one editor. "Before very long his stories take on the same old mediocre handout-and sometimes propaganda-slant." Adds another editor: correspondents often "write like foreign ministers...
...greatest playwright in U.S. history died last week. The scene of his death, as depressing as any in his 47 plays, was a Boston hotel, where he had been living for the past two years, too sick to write. By his bedside, when a final attack of pneumonia felled him, were his doctor, a nurse, and his third wife, with whom he had quarreled bitterly (two years ago he unsuccessfully tried to have her committed to a mental hospital). .His children were dead or far away. His name, once a clarion call, threatened to be drowned out by the tinny...
...sense of "belonging" had been crushed by the Machine Age; faith had become atrophied; the "old God was dead" and a new one was not in sight. With such a view of the U.S., O'Neill set out to do what no American playwright had done before: write tragedy...
...brilliant classical scholar, committed suicide, reportedly over an unhappy love affair. Younger son Shane did a stretch in a federal narcotics clinic for dope addiction. Daughter Oona became Charlie Chaplin's fourth wife, and O'Neill never forgave her. World War II had sapped his will to write; then a muscular disorder made it physically impossible. He destroyed most of what he had written of the play cycle. His dark brown eyes rested in a pathetically drawn face, his big frame grew skeletal, his voice, out of control, now boomed, now croaked in a whisper...
...authorize a subsidy to the industry to help boost production immediately. Current production is only about 2,800 tons a year, and planned production of 25,000 tons by 1956 falls far short of needs. Talbott wants to subsidize the industry with Government-guaranteed loans, a rapid tax write-off, and Government contracts to buy all it can produce...