Why do you make me do it?
David Bromwich: Robert Ryan, 18 February 2016
“... air of a veteran because he had grown up a close observer of the men who ran things. His father, Timothy, was a committeeman for the Democratic Party machine in Chicago, and with his four brothers founded and managed the Ryan Company, a construction firm with a line in street paving and sewer tunnels. Though they suffered in the market crash of ... ”