Word: bummed
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...President's message: "One is constrained to believe that the land in deed is promised, and the leader is worthy." In Chicago the Tribune was moved too-but in an opposite direction. "The secular savior is to take us over," said the Tribune, "and give us the bum's rush up the road to his conception of the Great Society." Between these two extremes, the editorialists found ample room for disagreement. But whether they cheered Johnson's sweeping blueprint or worried about the blue-sky aspects of his plan, on one point the U.S. press seemed...
...Flora, the matchseller reflects her desires and the need to love and cherish a man. Husband and bum reverse roles, and at play's end, Flora puts the matchseller's tray between Edward's nerveless fingers and grasps the old man's hand in hers...
...filthy beast is Gary Grant, somewhat whimsically cast as a Pacific island beach bum. World War II has begun, and Grant greets it with the disdain he might ordinarily show for a stale canape. Nevertheless, Australian Navy Commander Trevor Howard tricks him into a position as a plane spotter (code designation: Mother Goose) on a remote islet near New Guinea. Soon he has to rescue Caron and her seven giggling schoolgirl charges, who have fled the French consulate school at Rabaul...
...phenomenally difficult role of Bitos-Robespierre, Donald Pleasence is phenomenally good. He is a one-man seminar of the acting art, capturing every shading of the role from social unease to icy cruelty. He even bites his fingernails as if dreaming of heavenly guillotines. The scrofulous bum of The Caretaker has become the holy terrorist of the French Revolution...
...with themselves and blunted by past obliviousness, that they expect little sympathy and give none. Each character cherishes a scheme which will somehow give birth to his personality: one brother has a minute plan for decorating the room, the other wants to build a shed out back, and the bum is always about to go down to Sidcup to get the papers that prove who he is. The bum feels called upon to assert his sanity by bursting into prideful indignation at vaguely appropriate moments. His finicky concern about his shoes, especially, reminds one of the bums in Waiting...