Word: decays
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sally's Hounds is the story of a confused, moody young man named John, of his placidly domestic love relation with Kate, its progressive decay under the influence of his growing fascination with the mysterious Sally, and, finally, of his own violent destruction. It is a strong, simple story, and Edlestein has had the good judgment and integrity to treat it absolutely seriously. His film seldom veers toward the melodramatic and never toward easy undercutting of his characters and their hang-ups. He has set himself a hard task, balancing his story on the fine line between the maudlin...
When the major novel about the Nazi terror is written, its theme will almost certainly be not physical brutality but moral decay. Night Falls on the City merely anticipates the probability. Some of the animal savagery is there, and the death and suffering, but what is even more shameful is the almost total collapse of human decency in a highly civilized-perhaps overcivilized-society. Author Gainham knows Austria well, and the Viennese victims, fence sitters, Nazi bullyboys, happy collaborators and German overlords are all convincing enough for documentary purposes. Almost predictably, her heroine, a famous actress, has a Jewish husband...
...best poems are about women, lonely middle-aged women facing their own decay. "The Face" describes without a touch of comforting illusion, a long hard stare into the mirror...
...expensively tailored, double-breasted pin-stripe suits, monogrammed (CBS) shirts and Antonio y Cleopatra cigars, is no leveler. His children go to private schools. And now that he is king of Cleveland's mountain, he can be expected to work from the top to excise the civic decay that has retarded Cleveland's progress...
...think with White as Mayor, the great creative resources around Boston will get tapped and Boston could again become an exciting city. But if Mrs. Hicks gets elected, Boston will continue to decay until it becomes as stolid and as provincial as one of those Irish county seats that most of our people walked out of 150 years ago." The mustachioed poll worker's analysis of Boston's fate under Mrs. Hicks seems essentially accurate; but the idea that the Honorable Kevin H. White, Secretary of State for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts could turn Boston into the swinging Athens...