Word: elkins
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...doesn't want to remarry (her previous marriage was, we take it, based solely on material agreements); she does want to keep her hand in the pool, hoping for a man who can give her the "whole loaf". She only gets half; she, too, falls in love with Elkin...
...kinetic sculptor. Bob Elkin is an uncomplicated boy who brings unfettered pleasure to both Greville and Hirsh, and becomes increasingly important to them. He is a free agent in society and character, and he acts like God's gift to lonely people. It is, indeed, his very irresponsibility--his sensitivity only to small things, to children and animals--which makes him so attractive to the two more interesting adults...
...Elkin is impervious to outside pressure. It therefore follows that he may love Alex and Daniel, and yet not care to the extent of living with them--of helping them approach their problems on their own level. He is able to flee in the end to New York City, where a new market has opened for his luxury commodities...
...profession makes him operate on the very boundaries of life, and makes him further aware of his own limitations. He is melancholy, but he is not resigned to entropy: he helps his patients as best he can, and creates a pocket of personal substance, which sustains him even when Elkin leaves. Alex, not as self-possessed, is in a more painful position. Without channels for her intelligence, and without guidance from tradition, she relies on her better feelings, which do not help, but seize her. (When a young girl races across a street with a dog tagging behind...
...film's openmindedness about the different types of possible compromise makes its avowal of the necessity for compromise palatable. "You've got to make things work", says Alex's mother; but to Alex, you've got to work with someone compatible to your own needs. Elkin is even less appropriate for Daniel, who's always searched for someone "courageous and resourceful"; but Daniel sacrifices his dreams for the reality he's got. The only Sunday people who don't in some way, sacrifice hopes and ideals are the Hodsons, friends of the trio, for whom Alex and Bob babysit...