Word: blossoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Actor Marais, playing the moody, princely rake, sizes her up as a pushover, deigns to use her for passing pleasure. They learn each other's true motives in an intimate sequence brimming with Gallic candor and style, and as they manage to reconcile their conflicting emotions, their scenes blossom into a gauzy mood of idyllic romance...
...Reformers," says Santayana, "blame the world for being themselves ill fitted to live in it." Only the Rational Order, or life of reason, introduces intelligent pruning and brings the buds to blossom. Operating judiciously "in the light or shadow of the past and the possible," reason fosters the only kind of precarious progress there is-"perfections after our own kind in our own time and place." Says Santayana: "The circle neither envies the square nor wishes to devour it." "Live and let live" is his implied credo...
...actresses who seem to have captured the frothy spirit are Joanne Gilbert as the mischievous Puck and Martha Eyre in the minor role of Pease blossom. Connaught O'Connell is captivating as Helena, and whether pursuing or being pursued by various Athenians, she acts with equal gusto...
...Richard and two others play hooky and head for a swim. The shift from the atmosphere of the chapel to the outdoor freshness of a spring morning is achieved in descriptive language of unusual beauty: "Everywhere among the retreating trees strayed sober clouds of evergreen and mild clouds of blossom and the dreaming laurels, and everywhere, as deep into the stunned woods as they could see, layer above unwavering layer, the young leaves led like open shale; while, against their walking, apostolically, the trees turned." The swim itself and the boyish killing of a snake afterwards are described in flashing...
Guri Lie, blue-eyed, 22-year-old blonde daughter of the U.N.'s Secretary General Trygve Lie, was chosen queen of the 24th annual Shenandoah Apple Blossom Festival in Winchester, Va. The queen's first official duty: to bake a passable apple...