Word: apte
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first Emil's Uncle Mike (Fredric March) and Mike's fiancee Leona (Betty Field) are no more than amusedly mystified by the child's heel-clicking, catatonic gestures of patriotism. His new schoolmates, too, are a lot more lenient and courteous than they would be apt to be in real life; for a time the harmless little Scouts find his deadly weapons and deadlier ideas quite exciting...
...Apt music by David Diamond and eloquent lighting by Elizabeth Hull point up the moments of highest dramatic import. A stylized setting by Eva Le Gallienne presents the entire island scene on one revolving stage and makes the most of the three unities in the play. A minor flaw is Motley's costuming, which is in the nineteenth-century tradition and does not match the rest of the production...
When a plain U.S. citizen faces a U.S. Congressional quiz, the ensuing scene is apt to resemble a medieval inquisition. When a poet undergoes the same ordeal, it is more likely to resemble murder. Last week, lank, sallow, liberal Poet Archibald MacLeish, Librarian of Congress and one of Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius' new team of assistants, was almost bumped off by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee...
...date is the man's show. The almost pathetic eagerness of the girl who gets a date is apt to have a dangerous effect on the tenderer side of a susceptible male, "and Pity," warn the sages, "is akin to Love." Nevertheless, a strong man can hold his own. Flowers are undeniably a luxury. One who busy a corsage may be taken seriously. Food is no problem, for the girl who wishes to held a man may well invite him to a "home-cooked" meal. Here too, of course, there may be danger...
...chief weaknesses is instability. Reared in Japan's feudal atmosphere, savagely repressed all his life, he is apt to blow up in tight spots, make "banzai" suicide charges, commit harakiri. Victorious, he swells with arrogance and takes his repressions out on helpless prisoners...