Word: affair
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...critical evaluation of The Macomber Affair [TIME, April 7], the Cinema editor evidently failed to read the original story very closely. States the editor: "According to Hemingway, [Mrs. Macomber] shoots [her husband] deliberately. ... In the movie, it was just a tragic accident-and the audience is left to make up its own mind." Writes the author: "Mrs. Macomber . . . had shot at the buffalo . . . and had hit her husband...
Scallions and skunk cabbage to whoever reviewed The Macomber Affair...
...also concerned over her terror of a pitiless lover whom she dares not name but who, it becomes more & more obvious, is the sick teacher. Commencement time is approaching. The boy becomes ever less capable of study, ever more painfully the victim of his own confused love affair and of the teacher's venom...
...lion-hunting by day and the human drama of the night. The end of the picture is disappointing, but the climax is past, so it doesn't make much difference. Except for one or two incongruous touches in the portrayal of Macomber's cowardice, you'll like "The Macomber Affair...
...plate-glass school, Wright nonetheless remains an individualist devoted solely to personal artistic triumph. The greatest glory for Gropius must always be the ideal of an organically-planned community, free from slums, smoke, and congestion and their atendant social ills. Near his residence in Lincoln (a severe-lined affair of his own design atop a windy hill) he has pointedly noted in the Village Common model of Concord and Lexington a bygone "human scale small enough for each citizen . . . a scale which we have lost...