Word: ness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the Hollywood press preview, Producer Selznick stood in the lobby, scanning the faces of the "toughest audience in the world" with as much eager ness as any tyro at his own first play...
...monsoon, scripters were hard put to it to keep him from thawing icy Gail too fast, convincing her too soon that woman's place is in the home when not in the maternity ward. Vainly trying to stave off this inevitable ending, they tossed in trim Noel Van Ness (Danish-born Cinemactress Osa Massen), also blown in from Bali and quite tropical too about Burnett. When that fails, the story just starts running around in circles, from Nassau to Bali to Manhattan. Hero MacMurray is like Poet Kenneth Fearing's hero: wow he woos her, zowie he kisses...
Eric Linklater's novels range from the picaresque (Juan in America) to Aristophanes in modern dress (The Impregnable Women), from satire on English middle-class respectability (Ripeness Is All) to the saga of his Viking forbears (The Men of Ness). This week he adds to these a class-conscious study of history's archtraitor. Its thesis: Judas was a man of property attracted by Christ's teaching of peace and love, who finally betrayed his Master when he decided Christ was an anarchist whose success would mean the end of property rights...
Hopeful that he had the author of all 13 atrocities, Cleveland's Sheriff Martin L. O'Donnell breathed a long sigh of relief. Politically, his skin was saved. Professionally, he had triumphed over Sleuth Eliot Ness, famed G-Man who "got" Al Capone and is now Cleveland's Director of Public Safety...
...they will disappoint readers accustomed to the fire works of other Haldane writings. Whether or not a conversion to Marxism involves paralysis of the sense of humor, the au thor apparently decided that he could make the best impression with this book by assuming an air of grave reasonable ness. Despite this effort, many readers will find it less a proof of the scientific validity of Marxism than a collection of opinions on science and Marxism by John Burdon Sanderson Haldane...