Word: aridities
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...famed group finally been stunted by its arid totalitarian climate? Yes, thinks one of the few foreign observers competent to judge. Brooks Atkinson, the New York Times's drama critic and onetime Moscow correspondent, saw the Art Theater in 1923, 1935 and 1945-46. Atkinson believes that the clammy hand of bureaucracy has turned the Art Theater into something routine and mechanical. Says he: the great spirit that nurtured Gorky and Chekhov and inflamed theater-lovers the world over is gone...
...André Gide story, aimed at grown-up audiences, has so much more integrity and artistry than the run of movies that some of its admirers may be blind to its defects. It is superbly performed; talented and beautiful Mlle. Morgan has a chance to bloom again after an arid period in Hollywood. And the story is drawn slowly out of its characters with a patient indirection that piles up considerable emotional power without ever losing its sensitive touch...
...Freeman has shaken loose from thousands of documents is first a proud, preoccupied child (here Freeman is weakest, because of the many undocumented blanks in George's boyhood), then a self-made provincial surveyor, land-grabbing and money-seeking; later, a Virginia colonel of militia in the French arid Indian War with "the quenchless ambition of an ordered mind...
...Queen Elizabeth and Princess Margaret paid a visit to a reclamation project, where the wind proved bitter arid the Queen proved adaptable. For the sake of her ears she put on a scarf; for the sake of appearance she left on her hat. The result faintly suggested a Conestoga wagon...
...ultimately successful struggle to bring a torpedoed vessel back to port. The third is a first-rate portrait of a middle-aged man, veteran of World War I, who volunteers for "heavy rescue" work in London. Finding in his new job a pride he had lost during "the arid, desolate years between the wars," he achieves anonymous heroic stature by surrendering his life in a futile attempt to save a trapped man. This is certainly one of the best war stories written in England...