Word: brighter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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James Chace's In Winter; New England is the brighter star in this issue. Another chapter in the novel, Age of Michael, In Winter portrays the loneliness of several people as their life and friends disappear. In the context of the novel, this selection is enjoyable, but it suffers as a separate story because people enter and leave too abruptly and because the lack of adequate transitions between the thoughts of different characters often creates confusion. Chace is at his best when he records the impressions of Michael saying goodbye to his brother and of old, sick Mandy fighting against...
...brighter era is opening for Newfoundland, the oldest English-speaking possession in North America.*After nearly four backward centuries as an isolated British colony, the rugged North Atlantic island -the tenth and youngest Canadian province-is becoming industrialized. Its 361,000 hardy inhabitants, who once looked to the sea for a scant livelihood as cod fishermen, are turning inland to their mineral-rich mountains, their forests and power-packed waterfalls. With these resources, Newfoundland has launched a development program to balance its lopsided maritime economy, and change the sparse existence of its people for a fuller life...
...Pentagon was suddenly a brighter place last week for WACs, WAFs and secretaries. Cinemactor James Stewart, a reserve colonel in the Air Force, took time out from play-acting and reported for duty to work on an indoctrination film for new airmen and members...
...Neill is more prolix than profound in handling his melancholy theme. But he has enlivened it with Irish brogue and blague. And even when its dramatic light is half-hidden under a bushel of theatrics, A Moon for the Misbegotten casts a brighter gleam than any new play which the past season brought to Manhattan's Grey White...
Suspecting that there might be a few million soap-opera fans with nothing to do of mornings, one sponsor has worked out a plan to fill the breach. Beginning next month, NBC will record Procter & Gamble's afternoon soapers, Young Doctor Malone and The Brighter Day, from CBS lines, then play them back on the NBC network a day later. Cost of the service to P. & G., which spends several million dollars a year on 13 such programs, will be relatively small, since all the expensive work on the show goes into the live CBS performance...