Word: baileys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...preliminary game, the Yardling sextet, sparked by the brilliant net-minding of Jimmy Bailey, whipped the Brown Cubs, 6 to 1, for its fifty straight victory...
...plot has an immense sallowness, exceeded only by the banality of much of the dialogue. And yet authors Sidney Gilliat and Leslie Bailey rise sometimes to Gilbertian heights of whimsy. ("My dear," coss Gilbert to his wife, "how does it feel to be married to a transcendent genius?") Beginning with their Trial By Jury success and ending with Gilbert's elevation to knighthood after Sullivan's death, the film neatly skirts the high points of the duo's joint career. Instead, it brings to bear the full force of superficial analysis on the dissension that had them taking bows from...
...Wylie ideal. Father Conner is a sturdy sector warden who has kept his faith in C.D. throughout the dull years of cold war. So have his worthy wife and their sons Ted (a radio ham) and Chuck (an architect serving in Air Force intelligence). But their neighbors, the Bailey family, have spent the cold-war years lining their nests and crying haw-haw at C.D., except for daughter Lenore, who is devoted both to Chuck Conner and radiochemistry. Trouble is that Lenore is faced with the prospect of marrying a wealthy heel to save father Bailey from exposure...
...erring fellow men for many years and can therefore write of it with passionate intensity. Indeed, he concludes that bombing may be regarded as an "ultimate blessing," because total devastation provides "opportunity for young men" and gives architects a chance to design better cities. Moreover, by obliterating Mr. Bailey and his embezzlements, it gives Lenore the chance to marry Chuck. So on the whole, perhaps the only really terrifying thing about Tomorrow is a statement on the jacket which says that Author Wylie is "an expert in Civil Defense matters and serves the Government in the capacity of Consultant...
...probable freshman lineup: Bailey, g; Papalia, Allen, and Hoffman, d; Worthen, Burlingame, Crowley and Nicholas, W; Hollander and White...