Word: artlessly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most readers approaching such a work will have a suspicious eye out for innocent fakery or artless burble, but will find neither. All the grandeurs and miseries of life between nine and 15 are experienced by Caroline's heroine-Antonia Rutherford ("Buddersmud" to her coevals). All the savagery of child civilization boils about the muddy asphalt and precipitous stone stairs of the London primary school. Derision and clownish aggression is the prechivalric code between the nonsexes. There are friendships of Byronic intensity and power alliances of Renaissance intricacy. The tormented teaching staff is examined through a child...
...read the book know, is the rags-to-nouveau-riche story of the late playwright-director Moss Hart and his historic subway trip from The Bronx to Broadway. Hart was a shrewd, witty, candid and flamboyant theater man. As played on the screen by George Hamilton, he seems reserved, artless, uncertain. The movie audience is asked to imagine him as the boy wonder who collaborated with Writer-Director George S. Kaufman on the 1930 comedy smash, Once in a Lifetime. It's hard...
...director will say to him about his immediate role in the play. If he does well in the course it is only because he has done well in his role, thus he has been hired at the price of academic credit and a good grade. If our nontheatrical, artless English student is admitted instead, the net gain to the Loeb stage is zero, and he might well have learned more of value in a regular dramatic literature course. One could object that I have drawn polarized caricatures, and that a really good actor must have a broad interest...
...Khanna's Private College, finds settling down a most delicate matter. His family, he complains to a colleague, "have married me to a girl. She doesn't cook. She is not house-proud." As brightly played by Shashi Kapoor, Prem faces life with all the artless perplexity of a man who has just seen his hat run over by a streetcar. His wife Indu (doe-eyed Leela Naidu) is disrespectful-when he criticizes her, she talks back. "They come like lambs and before long they are tigers at your throat," a friend explains. Finally, Prem hits...
...fracas, though, France's first few Estates are undressed and their flabby forms thoroughly mocked. The pudgy bishop with his charming son, the stuttering judge and his artless encourage of wig-wearing half-wits, and the lecherous count hardly evoke respect for the leaders of the old monarchy. They all get their clothes back, finally, with a dab of cau de cologne, but the audience doesn't forget the bandy legs and buttressed bosom it has seen...