Question

A play by this author that begins with the Taussig brothers printing leaflets about the American embargo of the Nazis contains the first use of the phrase “male chauvinism.” A character created by this author proclaims that after his grandfather died, “I was born! I swear to God, I’m one week old!” This author’s play Till the Day I (15[1])Die was written to accompany a play in which one character states that his brother Sam joined the Navy and will probably go to Cuba, which is where (*) Hennie plans to go with Moe Axelrod in a different play by this author. This author, who wrote about the struggles of the Berger family in a play set in the Bronx, also (10[1])wrote a play whose seventh and final vignette ends after a body is found, leading Agate to (-5[1])lead a chant calling for a strike. For 10 points, name (10[2])this playwright of Awake and Sing! and Waiting for Lefty. ■END■

ANSWER: Clifford Odets
<Literature - American Literature - Drama>
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Caleb OttTensei Shitara Flashcard Data KenShe Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere5815
Tony ChenSimpson Agonistes: The Crisis of DonutCommunism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country11910
Maude-Sophie Lockmanas rational as the square root of two power bottomsYou cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit136-5
Aaron Dos RemediosModerator Can't Neg me While in AlphaThe Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange14710
Erik ChristensenI'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up Ryan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan Quizbowlers14710
Mattias EhatammYou cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruitas rational as the square root of two power bottoms15910

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2024 ARGOS @ Stanford02/22/2025Y3100%33%0%108.00
2024 ARGOS @ McMaster11/17/2024Y5100%20%20%126.00
2024 ARGOS @ Chicago11/23/2024Y5100%0%0%125.40
2024 ARGOS @ Columbia11/23/2024Y3100%0%33%139.33
2024 ARGOS @ Christ's College12/14/2024Y3100%0%0%144.67