Word: austen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Erikson did research at the Harvard Medical School before joining the Austen Riggs Center, Stockbridge, in 1931. Still at the Center, he is currently working with the psychological problems of young people. He has been involved in the study of childhood most of his life...
...Richard Austen Butler, 56, Home Secretary and Leader of the House of Commons. Top Tory thinker and the man who oversaw the party's postwar shift to "the New Conservatism," i.e., free enterprise heavily tempered by welfare statism, "Rab" Butler is distrusted by many fellow Tories for reasons ranging from his barbed wit to his prewar identification with Neville Chamberlain's appeasement. Although he remains the No. 2 man in the party, Butler may well be too old for the job the next time the Tories come to choose a new Prime Minister, and there is considerable question...
...American past, suggesting that only yesterday Horatio Alger was king. "Status striving" to him seems to be a modern menace, and he writes of it with scant mention of Thorstein ("conspicuous consumption") Veblen or of the massive, fascinating and often exhilarating social climbs described by Balzac, Stendhal, Jane Austen...
That prayer was not answered last week as the current theatrical bibliomania engulfed Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. If First Impressions resembles any fair lady, it is Jenny, the girl who could not make up her mind. The show wavers between Austen, Burrows and music-hall burlesque, and only the elegant Regency settings and costumes of Peter Larkin and Alvin Colt seem serenely self-assured...
...plot is still basic Austen. The aristocratic Mr. Darcy (Farley Granger) falls in love with Elizabeth (Polly Bergen), one of the five Bennet sisters. She dislikes his arrogance as sincerely as he dislikes her middleclass, mercenary mother. It is a classic case of love at first slight. As Darcy, Hollywood's Farley Granger is the stuff telephone poles are made of. TV's Polly Bergen makes a winning Elizabeth, but the ex-Pepsi Cola Girl seems to be selling her part rather than playing it. As Mrs. Bennet, the huntress of five carriage-trade husbands, Hermione Gingold growls...