Word: scribbler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back. I am sure that the power of vested interests is vastly exaggerated compared with the gradual encroachment of ideas...
...word was "effeminately" in a game of charades; the word was "Britishly." He is finally seduced by an ill-complected nymphomaniac and is comic in love as he conjugates Latin to prolong his pleasure. He is outdrunk, outmaneuvered, outraged and out-snuffed at every turn. The young "Yid scribbler" makes off with his mistress...
...avantgarde, he loomed as a giant figure, an irrepressible rebel against stuffy conventions, a decisive experimental voice in modern French poetry, and the cultural midwife of the cubist movement in painting. For most of the rest of the world, he was little more than an obscure bohemian scribbler from the heady pre-Dada days in Paris when it was still possible for the bohemians to think that society needed their help in turning itself inside out and upside down...
EDMUND (Dean Stockwell), the younger brother, is O'Neill as he was, or fondly remembered he was, at 23: a sailor home from the sea with consumption, a secret scribbler who longed to be a poet but guessed he lacked the gift...
...asks him to dinner at her house. When he arrives, the door is opened by her ten-year-old daughter. To his surprise and relief, the hero feels like a father to the girl, and he soon begins to feel like a husband to her mother. Then a scandal scribbler reveals his past. He loses his job, the woman he loves, his will to live. "I can't go on!" he sobs to his doctor, who calmly replies: "You can try." As the picture ends, he is trying, and the widow is beginning...