Word: austen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...State Department's broad-beamed, broad-minded Ralph Edmond Turner, a brilliant and experienced educator. He will sit as an observer with the representatives of ten other United Nations (and the still unofficial observers of Russia, China, India, the British Dominions). Chairman is British education chief Richard Austen Butler...
...overweight in flat heels and the inevitable spectacles) and Mrs. Henry Windle Vale ( Gladys Cooper, whose discreet, sociologically exact portrayal of the mother is the best thing in the film). Claude Rains, in a role reminiscent of upper-class New England's late Psycho-messiah Dr. Austen Fox Riggs, helps Charlotte escape from Boston and mother by taking a cruise. On shipboard Jerry Durrance (Paul Henreid), a voyaging architect, takes the cure a step further by falling in love with Charlotte. By the time she gets home, Charlotte is ready to give mother a complex...
...Decre Wiman and the flawless acting of Flora Robson and the unusually good supporting cast to make a production that is an exercise in technical excellence. Miss Robson, displaying again her complete mastery of her art, is perfect as the English spinster; she is so good that even Jane Austen would probably approve of her. Margaret Dougless is outstanding as an overbearing matron, and Celeste Holm is very good as a breezy actress. Definite ornaments to the cast are a handsome and promising juvenile, Peter Fernandez, and a delightful young lady named Joan Tetzel who, as a coltish adolescent...
...Critic Clive Bell. She educated herself in her father's vanguard-Victorian library, honed her fine wits against the most delicately abrasive minds in Edwardian and Georgian London. Her first novels, The Voyage Out and Night And Day, were a blotted watercolor of social comedy in Jane Austen's manner and her own brand of lyrical metaphysics. In uneasy, brilliant experiments, in critical essays putting such writers as Joyce and Arnold Bennett in their proper places, Virginia Woolf began to find...
...cummings' acerb switch ("For a bad cigar is a woman but a gland is only a gland") might well have been cited, too. Under the opinions about "men of mark" Mencken fails to mention Mark Twain's famous "Just that one omission alone[Jane Austen's books] would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it." Lincoln's "I laugh because I must not cry-that's all, that's all" is overlooked; so are such famed phrases as "Damned clever, these Chinese" and "Elementary...