Word: donee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Life with Father. The stage hit sumptuously done up into solid, rather stoutish Technicolor entertainment with William Powell as Father and Irene Dunne as Mother (TIME...
...console the millions who could not see the show, radio's perennial wonder boy, Norman Corwin, turned a rosy spotlight on the proceedings with a new script entitled The Time Is Now! "What has the General Assembly in its two years done [about disarmament]?" shouted a voice of disembodied skepticism over the nation's loudspeakers. "What will it do?" The reply came in tones of ringing triumph: "The answer is-it is on the agenda...
...people in the U.S. still does not know what the United Nations is or what it does." He also called upon the U.N. General Assembly to devise means to protect the Greek people from Communist aggression. But he left them free to figure out how this is to be done...
Olivia Robertson is a well-bred young Irishwoman who has done social work in an improved Dublin slum. Like many other social workers who make copy of their experiences, Author Robertson sometimes commits to print anecdotes and adventures that probably sounded fine at the time but, in type, only seem strained and amateurish, like a genteel effort to make a smutty-faced child blow its nose. The savor of the subject, however, often rises above her polite intentions...
...left alone on the stage help things only slightly. A little man, dressed as Massey, climbs out of a chimney (the set is a roof) and starts to berate his master, presumably the body and emotions of the scientist, for just about everything that he has said and done in the previous scene. All this falls somewhere short of delightful...