Word: anderson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Luck & Coordination. In a way, the Sadler's Wells company was blessed with luck. It had arrived in Manhattan at a time when the theater was at its lowest ebb since the war. The hits of last fortnight, Maxwell Anderson's and Kurt Weill's Lost in the Stars, and the Lunts in I Know My Love (see THEATER) had not yet opened. Sadler's Wells was the first smash of the 1949-50 entertainment season...
...year simply to write out the mathematical formula through which he arrived at his conclusion: that a previously unknown type of particle was a clue to the force that held the nucleus of the atom together. Two years later the unknown particle was verified by Dr. Carl D. Anderson in laboratory experiments, and later named "meson...
...group, which began its altruism last month by paving the mud-slough on upper Plympton Street, had planned to lessen pre-game crowding on Anderson bridge by shunting part of the traffic across on a rowboat...
Lost In the Stars (words by Maxwell Anderson; music by Kurt Weill; produced by the Playwrights' Company) refashions Alan Paton's moving story of South African race relations, Cry, the Beloved Country, into a kind of choral drama. It tells of an old Negro's search for his errant son, who has killed a great white champion of the Negro race, of the boy's repentance and death, and of the symbolic coming-together of the two stricken fathers...
Jesse learned to kill in the Civil War. The son of a steel-willed, thrice-married mother (whose first husband, Jesse's father, was a preacher) ran away at 16 to join the Southern guerrillas. His commander, "Bloody Bill" Anderson, liked to cut off the ears of the Yankees he killed and hang them on his horse's bridle. "Dingus" (Jesse's nickname) equaled him in savagery, finally rose to share the command of a guerrilla gang fighting in Texas. After one battle he "cold-bloodedly finished off the Reverend U.P. Gradner, who pleaded that...