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...Granny fell and broke her hip." When the word first passes around the family circle, younger members especially are not seriously concerned. But that cavalier attitude quickly changes in the tragic sequence of events that so often follows: circulatory problems, including blood clots, respiratory infections like pneumonia, severe muscle atrophy during prolonged immobilization. Each year about 200,000 older Americans suffer from this seemingly minor accident. As many as 40,000 die of complications within six months, and another 40,000 are so disabled that they require chronic care in nursing homes for the rest of their lives...
...Brando's remark testifies to Odets's incredible success in capturing the Zeitgeist of the 1930s, it also gives a hint of tragic flaws buried beneath the success. Although Odets would live and write well into the early 1960s, he strived, unsuccessfully, to break out of the role of spokesman for a decade that was over before he had turned...
...author picked a good time to stop this volume, leaving Odets before he enters into his tragic decline. He will never again match his early dramatic successes. He will move on to Hollywood as a screenwriter, at the time a well-known repository for manque artists. He will go on to become a friendly witness for the House Un-American Activities Committee. And, perhaps most sad, even his early plays would lose favor...
Coalhouse Walker Jr. (Howard E. Rollins Jr.), a black man whose dignity could be taken or mistaken for arrogance-who, it occurs to Father, "didn't know he was a Negro." Soon enough, that awareness is impressed on him, with tragic results for him, the Family and ragtime New York...
Though Viet Nam veterans never got big parades, by next year they should at least be able to dedicate a memorial to their fallen comrades. But as with so much else touched by that tragic war, the memorial's eloquently understated design is stirring controversy...