Word: dissimilarities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...play chronicles a cruise taken by two old school friends (Ruth Ford and Ruth Matteson) with their dissimilar and discordant husbands, one a businessman (Arthur Margetson), the other a novelist (Tom Helmore). The wives shortly espy a tourist named Clutterbuck (Charles Campbell) on whom they had both, it transpires, bestowed their pre-matrimo-nial favors. Simultaneously the husbands discover they have both enjoyed the pre-matrimonial favors of Clutterbuck's wife (Claire Carleton). From there in, the play concentrates on how the six of them purr and perspire, recall the past and are moved to repeat it; on their...
Ichabod and Mr. Toad (Disney; RKO Radio) is an uneven doubleheader by Walt Disney, who has combined into one film two dissimilar literary classics: Washington Irving's Legend of Sleepy Hollow, and Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. The contrast in the handling of the two unrelated stories neatly illustrates some of Disney's outstanding vices & virtues...
...play tells of three glaringly dissimilar couples who decide to share a Manhattan mansion. One couple is incredibly frivolous and snobbish; another is grubby, worthy and naive; both are caricatures, while the third is merely colorless. Never deviating from formula, Town House first shows the couples squabbling with one another, then shows them squabbling among themselves, introduces a snooty mother, a sassy child, and a big shot neighbor who first wishes them all in hell and finally carries them all to heaven...
...uniquely Harvard's, although it is uniquely marked at Harvard. It is a split that exists in some degree in many of the nation's colleges, and probably to a significant degree in other eastern universities. But where other colleges manage in four years to weld their gangling, dissimilar Freshmen into something approaching an effective group, Harvard, deliberately or no, sees to it that Seniors in cap and gown care little for the greatest part of their classmates, know nothing of the hopes, aims, and activities of anybody outside their own small circle. Nor are their bachelors degrees necessarily...
...however, had their similarities. Walpole was calm and cautious; so is King. Walpole stayed in office by his skill in holding together discordant Whig factions; King owes his long tenure to skill in welding the dissimilar Liberals of French and English Canada...