Word: escapist
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...this might well have made Grandpa Longstreet a character to end all recollections of the Diamond Jim Brady-Stanford White-Harry K. Thaw-Anna Held era. But Nine Lives with Grandfather is not that good a book. At best, it is readable, escapist nonfiction, often amusing but seldom really funny. At worst, it is merely the sixth book in two years by 33-year-old Stephen Longstreet, a prolific writer who also operates under at least four pseudonyms and who draws almost as facilely as he writes...
...brain forms the body of an ostrich and the spinal cord is the bird's neck which tunnels through the sand, emerges on the other side with a sheepish expression. The brain's convolutions represent voluptuous female nudes. Miss Stilwell says the brain is that of an escapist...
...Devil or not? Requirement for the entering class into Hell is a thoroughly abominable life, and Ameche telling of his past villainy to numberless females seems to qualify. The women in his life, beginning with Victorian plush-and-tessels Technicolor scenics occupy the major portion of this escapist film. But unfortunately enough, Ameche's caddishness, elopements, and double dealings aren't enough. This comedy is good for chuckies, and makes hell thoroughly attractive. The film has a good supporting cast, and rambles on pleasantly despite some dull moments. Recommended if you have nothing more important...
...couple's son and imminently expectant daughter-in-law arrive to turn it into a delivery room. Another set of prospective parents also pay a call, but obligingly scram before the place becomes an out-&-out maternity ward. Between whiles there are some highly transient maids, some escapist drinking by the long-suffering older folk, and a sour maiden aunt who, deprived of her bed, is forced to take cot luck in the living room...
...besieged.' " 'Besieged, yes,' said the military censor, 'but I object to the noun "siege".' " Such bureaucracy was seriously harmful in the more vital areas of the war. But it is Weller's view that the picture of Singapore as a decadent, liquor-swilling, escapist community is totally false. Decisions came from London, and from Lon don, too, should have come the planes without which the Malayan forces were helpless. The decision to arm and train Malayan troops was made too late and would have clashed bitterly with the prevalent opinion among many that...