Word: clare
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Clare Scott plays Sir Harry's new, brow-beaten wife with a fluttering meekness exactly appropriate. The real tribute to Glenn Goldberg's direction, however, is that Sir Harry and his secretary set each other off so well, both in word and in gesture...
...this is because he plays it with less ease, though still effectively, as does Lee Jeffries in the role of the poet's lover, who sacrifices herself for him. An indignant landlord, John Ratte, sheds humor on the whole scene with his belligerent fist-shakings. Ann Adams and, again, Clare Scott, depict two sympathetic but gossipy old women in the boarding house where a detective, Bruce Fearing, is searching for conspirators...
...capitalist, Los Angeles is a Hollywood tart, and the land between the cities is drenched in the bitter lees of The Grapes of Wrath. This caricature is a fact which every American responsibly concerned with U.S. foreign relations must face. A fortnight ago the U.S. Ambassador to Italy, Clare Boothe Luce, had to face it in a concrete form. Invited to attend the annual Venice Film Festival, she found that its program included an M-G-M film, Blackboard Jungle (TIME, March 21), which deals heavy-handedly with juvenile delinquency in U.S. big-city schools. Teenage savagery is a fact...
Winging into Rome from Tel Aviv, New York's junketing Democratic Governor W. Averell Harriman was greeted at the airport by U.S. Ambassador to Italy Clare Boothe Luce. Asked later by newsmen to comment on the Geneva Conference, onetime Ambassador to Russia Harriman gave an old hand's appraisal: "The same old patter comes out of the Victrola ... a certain familiar ring . . . Bulganin's reply [to President Eisenhower's inquiry about international Communism] was exactly the same as the reply I got in Russia 29 years ago . . . We must keep up our guard...
...Approved, in the House, construction of a new $36 million Smithsonian Institution building on Washington's Mall, to be called the Museum of History and Technology, after listening to Michigan's ratchet-tongued Clare Hoffman admit to the "overpowering" thought, upon visiting the Smithsonian, that "after all, I do not as an individual amount to very much in this world, never did and never will...