Odets
Americannoun
noun
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In Out of the Shadows: Reimagining Gay Men’s Lives, psychotherapist Walt Odets writes about the failure to connect he’s seen in the population he writes about:
From Slate • Aug. 1, 2021
They included the playwright Clifford Odets and actors Morris Carnovsky and his wife Phoebe Brand.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 16, 2020
Katelman, who worked with writers, including the acclaimed Paddy Chayefsky and Clifford Odets, said he preferred them to actors because they offered substance over ego and temperament.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 9, 2019
The screenplay was by Clifford Odets, America’s chief inheritor of the dramatic tradition of Anton Chekhov, and in that one line, he epitomized the lesson of his master.
From New York Times • Apr. 26, 2017
She described Odets as pathologically jealous of her Oscar wins.
From Washington Post • Dec. 30, 2014
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