Word: distraughtly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bitterness and bullying, wants eagerly to be liked. The acting is first-rate, not only by Garfield, but by Shelley Winters, deglamorized as the simple, forlorn pickup whose home he invades, by Wallace Ford as her father, grimly swallowing his self-respect, and Selena Royle as the distraught mother...
...Wisconsin's dairyland. Little more than a year ago, they joined Jehovah's Witnesses and moved to Chicago with their first child, Kit. (As often happens in cases of Rh incompatibility, there had been no difficulty with the first-born.) Now, red-eyed and distraught, each with a Bible in hand, they fought off the city health authorities...
...play, therefore, has an interesting and subtle framework of ideas; but its chief appeal lies in its charming picture of the kitchen group: the distraught and sensitive girl, the solid reliable Berenice who mothers her, and the perky little boy who hangs around them...
...piling into busses, trains, and other means of escape; we see a little boy who has forgotten to "go" before leaving the house; we see a kindly bus driver following regulations sternly and refusing to allow another little boy to take his pet chicken along with him; we see distraught mothers and aged grandmothers...
Family Reunion is Nash's own scissors & paste job, selections from his books which he himself can still read "without visibly wincing." His hero, the distraught male, lurks everywhere, but Nash is here saluting the American family, which consists, by his definition, "not only of children, but of men, women, an occasional animal, and the common cold." Nothing delights him more than working over the darkest thoughts of harried parents...