Word: bloomed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...designs. John Neville, in the role that Olivier once dismissed with Mercutio-like disdain ("Romeo is really a jerk"), was carved out of beaverboard; he crashed parties and climbed vines gracefully enough, but gave more a bloodless recitation than a performance full of the juices of life. But Claire Bloom, 26, was a prize Juliet who made even her more hackneyed passages sound fresh. Looking no more than the 14 Juliet was written to be, she was as soft and warm as a tea cozy, even if priggish NBC censors did raise her neckline by 3½ inches...
...There is mildew on the rocks, and the Judas trees are in bloom. The face of the country has been transformed. And the people are a little happier ... A neighbor, a very old man, said last fall: 'The hand of man is against me and the face of God is turned away. Pardner, whichever way you look, it's tough.' Last week he said: 'Son, just listen to the mockingbirds...
...Extravagant & Inflationary." Worn off too by the new budget was the first bloom of enthusiasm for Eisenhower's "Modern Republicanism." Newspapers long friendly to Ike rumbled that Modern Republicanism looked a lot like the big-spending New and Fair Deals. "Good Republicans," mourned a California G.O.P. county chairman, "are worried about it and complaining about it-the budget, the New Deal approach." Growled Iowa's Republican Congressman Harold Royce Gross: "I'm afraid I'm not a Modern Republican-not if it means a $72 billion budget...
Producer's Showcase (Mon. 8 p.m., NBC). The Old Vic's Romeo and Juliet, with Claire Bloom, John Neville (color...
...made publicity, five unknown actresses were freighted across the continent to be tested for the title role in Marjorie Morningstar. As the season's best-plugged heroine hunt progressed, Hollywood jungle drums boomed Carroll (Baby Doll) Baker, Jean Simmons, Elizabeth Taylor and the Old Vic's Claire Bloom for the part. A likely long shot, according to one tub thumper, for Herman Wouk's bagel-belt heroine: Steve Allen's sometime girl singer, Irish-descended Erin O'Brien...