Word: constant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Curious Wife. Their married life was typical of the officer set-dinners with the colonel, shooting-parties, receptions and balls at the best London houses. But Desmond never let social splendor spoil his sense of kindness. He paid constant visits to a crippled veteran who had been his batman in World War II. He spoke tenderly of a doting old aunt, whose senile eccentricity caused her to send him blank postcards at regular intervals. Harriet never saw these two people, but at last she noticed that whenever her husband received a card from his crazy aunt, he broke any previous...
...departure of George P. Baker in 1924 and of Wallace Stegner, Mark Schorer, and others in recent years for more inviting universities has occasioned a constant dismay in those who would like to see the teaching of creative writing an important part of Harvard's curriculum. Although the prospects for next year show a greater number of courses in the field, the English Department has no program to offer comparable to that of a number of other colleges, notably Iowa and Stanford. At Stanford, for example, there is a creative writing "center", with fat scholarships for young writers, and, perhaps...
From the viewpoint of the eldest daughter, the affection of Mama for her family is a very real thing --and so it is presented. The plot closely approaches soap-opera funny business in places, but any hokum is carefully avoided by careful character delineation and a constant vote of the ridiculous. It is hard to believe that the family would remain convinced that Mama's imaginary bank account was real; but acceptance of this anyth is so credibly presented that it isn't questioned. Well selected close-ups of the children's faces enhance the authority of Mama...
...individual vignettes of "Mama", spiced by imaginative camera angles and a constant shifting of perspective, are uniformly well-done. Irene Dunne is forced to concentrate on her Swedish enunciation--consequently, her tongue comes out of her cheek and her performance approaches the masterful. The aunts are also well-played but it is the excellent acting of the children that really carries the show. They all perform as if they really do remember Mama...
Louis Golden finally sold it, he told the committee, for $315 to $325 a ton, to the Holland Furnace Co. of Holland, Mich., only four hours' drive from K-F's Willow Run plant. The constant selling and reselling of the same steel sometimes gets very confusing, Golden confessed. Said he: "I recall a gentleman came up to the office and asked us to come out and inspect some steel, and we needed that type, and we went out to our own warehouse and looked at our own steel...