Word: benisons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...silly guardian of the Brahmins' unalterable law of proprieties. But as the play progresses, she begins to reveal a zany comic sense and something more: the courage to carry out the marriage vows in adversity. Frances Conroy's Mags is quite touching as she seeks a parental benison on her vocation. None of the performances could be bettered. Seldes and Moffat may never have given more emotionally charged and exquisitely crafted performances in their long-spanned careers...
...thing that distinguishes the fund that runs the place is its devotion not only to care but to something approaching benison. You can be rich or you can be broke, and they will take you in as long as you have spent the past 20 years in the business, from acting to locking the gate, and exceptions are made to that. Viola Dana is here (the classic silent Blue Jeans), and the industry forgot about her when movies began to talk...
...Eleanor in the White House had become a benison. She gave hope to the desperate and defeated, seeking out the underdog and the eccentric . . . It was as if she engaged in a dialogue that was always invested with love. . . Relationships enabled her to remain human and to plumb depths of feeling from which she had long been absent. She was grateful and did not care what the papers wrote...