Word: casuals
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because this story of an immigrant Swedish family in San Francisco has appeared in magazine, book, and play form, most people remember Mama well. But any initial familiarity shouldn't prevent a look at the screen version, for this West Coast cupboard saga profits from retelling. Remaining within the casual domestic confines of Kathryn Forbes' original story, Hollywood has wisely refrained from introducing any heartbreaking scenes to remind the audience that this is the most socko treatment so far. Instead, Mama and her family carry the yarn in terms of routine actions and the result is a mood picture...
...worthy counterpoise to Rebecca West's The Meaning of Treason (TIME, Dec. 8), is one of the pleasures of the season. In the guise of high-class reporting, that book was a brilliant shifting of floodlights around modern forms of an ancient depravity. In the guise of casual memoirs, Four Studies in Loyalty affirms the beauty of the contrary virtue-a virtue that may be as subtle and incalculable in its effects as a fresh scent on a spring morning...
...most private parts of most houses, the wedged-open doors of offices and studies, the shared bedrooms in colleges and boarding houses, the innumerable clubs and fraternal and patriotic associations, professional organizations, and conventions, the club cars on trains, the numberless opportunities and facilities given for casual conversation, the radio piped into every hotel bedroom, into many railway cars and automobiles, left on incessantly in the house.... Americans, psychiatrists as well as laymen, consider that there is something odd, something suspect, in a young person who deliberately eschews company and chooses privacy or loneliness...
...casual athlete will find scores of his ilk in the House. As of this week, only one major team has not finished first in intramural standings since last spring, with baseball, softball, crew, football, hockey, and two squash teams winding up on top of the standings...
...Casual & Decent. The 20-minute film opens in the living room of a respectable, middle-class family. Opening his textbook to the picture of a naked Indian, the boy asks his father why savages didn't wear clothes while civilized people do. That starts a family bull-session about sex, to make the audience realize that sex can be casually and decently discussed...