Word: contentedness
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The same problem of style hampering translation is found in Lowell Swortzell's direction. It is conceivable that by a careful introduction of side-splittingly funny bits Mr. Copley's script might have been saved (though I doubt it). Instead Mr. Swortzell has contented himself with moving his actors awkwardly...
WATCHER IN THE SHADOWS, by Geoffrey Household (248 pp.; Atlantic-Little, Brown; $3.95), is one of those controlled British exercises in suspense in which the imminence of death seems as natural as the call of a thrush. An old manhunt expert, Author Household (Rogue Male, A Rough Shoot) this time...
In a constitution written by SCAP's Government Section, the general gave the Japanese the liberties that some of them now seem bent on throwing away-free speech, universal suffrage, an independent judiciary. In 1949, Detroit Banker Joseph Dodge, MacArthur's tough-minded economic adviser, forced upon the...
Lerner loves to provoke students ("Thrilling," says one) who spout Gandhi's idealism-and refuse to get their hands dirty in the new world. When they insist that poverty-stricken India is nonetheless "contented," Lerner snaps back: "Like a cow?" He points to the U.S. experience. A healthy discontent...
But the Devil is nervous. Something is all too pleasant in the state of Hell, and the residents are too contented to be there. As if in extension of Shaw's Man and Superman, the Devil decides to send Don Juan (Robert Mandan) to earth to see what is...