Word: cowardly
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...Boston, which perhaps adds to its credulity. A young man, spoken somewhat inaudibley by Amory over a loudspeaker, rejects society's values and affirms that the only truth is found within oneself. He tries to force his personal viewpoint on society as the absolute, being too much a moral coward to live alone with his idea. He is finally killed by a thug who wants to "be somebody" by killing someone he thinks necessary to the world. He actually kills one of its most useless citizens, the play tells...
...Noel Coward* sat in the front row. The Oliviers were there. So were banks of diplomats, café socialites and other famous faces. By the time the curtain went up on the first British showing of South Pacific, more than 2,300 had crowded into London's Drury Lane Theater...
...Piccadilly's streetwalkers were out in three times their usual force, and a cordon of policemen surrounded the boarded-over statue of Eros to ward off the drunks who always want to climb it on such occasions. At the Savoy, a gilded party of 2,000 (including Noel Coward, Cecil Beaton, Merle Oberon and Sharman Douglas) joined Press Lord Viscount Camrose of the Daily Telegraph to sip champagne and watch a private bulletin board...
...Fourposter" is not great drama nor is it Noel Coward. My companion at the theatre called it a "charming" play and I must agree...
...signposts in limbo, these point everywhere and nowhere. And Party Going's old-fashioned pastime-noodling flea-brained upper-class Britons-is next door to limbo. Writing this novel in the '30s, Author Green wrapped the comedy of a lesser Waugh in the chatter of a lesser Coward. What remains in 1951 is the shell of a satire with about as much yoke as a ping-pong ball...