Word: aloof
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Denni Allen makes a delightful Mephistopheles, somewhat coy and aloof, domineering, and beautifully expansive in his moment, ever tempting Faustus to greater sin. He suffers, however, from a fault which seemed to impede nearly everyone in the cast: an inability to lend sufficient grandeur to his speech. However regal his actions, his voice almost always gives him away...
...Salinger will have some advantages over Jim Hagerty-as well as some disadvantages. Dwight Eisenhower, perhaps out of old Army habit, generally held himself coolly aloof from the White House press; Jack Kennedy, whose first job was as a reporter for the old International News Service, is far more accessible to the press, numbers several reporters among his closest personal friends. But White House reporters operate on a communal code, are likely to raise Cain with Salinger when favoritism is shown...
...American Catholic bishops are keeping aloof from politics; they have never forced their subjects either to vote for a Catholic candidate or forbidden them to vote for a non-Catholic candidate...
...vote for the St. Lawrence Seaway. His longshoremen constituents were furious, and the New England press dubbed him "the Suicide Senator" for supporting a scheme that could only damage the port of Boston. But Kennedy reasoned that Canada would undoubtedly build the seaway alone if the U.S. held aloof, decided that the nation might as well share in its ultimate benefits...
...condemn the actors, who struck me as a competent lot. Joan DeWeese, as Blanche, acted the final mad scene with aloof dignity. It is Mr. Murray's fault, I think, that she never revealed her sensuality, her nymphomaniacal craving after Stanley Kowalski. Mitch Ryan, as Kowalski, was splendidly grubby, violent, and stupid, but he too never quite seemed the sexually potent animal he should have been. His movements around the stage were sometimes those of a normal human being, sometimes those of an ape, and sometimes those of a wind-up toy on the blink. Mrs. Kowalski, Blanche's sister...