Word: famed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Professionally, Marilyn was a year-after-year success. Instead of bringing her contentment, this subjected her to the stresses of fame. A wonderfully funny comedienne in earlier movies, she went on in Misfits to show herself a talented serious actress, but the part that exiting Husband-Author Miller gave her in that movie was modeled painfully on her own inner problems. Going out on the town again in recent weeks with Di Maggio ("I'm delighted to find that he is still a good friend") can have done little to calm the inner conflict. Payne Whitney, which does...
Powerful Magic. Greene's hero is Querry, a famous architect, celebrated-like Greene himself -as a major Roman Catholic artist. He is rich, successful, greatly loved ("fame is a powerful aphrodisiac''), and he is also dead. He has "had it." The act of love and the creation of beautiful buildings have become empty of meaning. Baldly stated, this spiritual situation is hard to comprehend. But by means of Greene's great novelistic art, the powerful magic of a born and practiced fabulist, the reader is compelled to understand and share such desiccation of soul. As British...
Parkinson's Law. At first, the world intrudes through a copy of TIME, which has drifted up the Congo and which carries a cover story on the great architect.* Thus Querry, seeking nothing but anonymity, is doomed to the martyrdom of the fame he has repudiated. Later, the outside world in its total corruption is personified, as it has been so often before in novels, by a British popular journalist, and ex-London Timesman Greene must be presumed to know his type faces. Montagu Parkinson is in the Congo "for the riot," but a rumor about Querry...
...Beacon Hill. Last week his immediate future seemed determined with the report that the ex-Harvard football player would become an assistant district attorney of Massachusetts' Suffolk County. A couple of crafty, mach 2 base runners stole their way into the already plaque-packed Baseball Hall of Fame. This year's unanimous choices: William ("Sliding Billy") Hamilton and Max ("Scoop") Carey (originally Max Carnarius). Hamil ton, a hard-hitting igth century National Leaguer who set the alltime league record for stolen bases with 797 in an era when the catcher stood far behind the plate, died...
...Hallmark Hall of Fame (NBC, 7:30-9 p.m.).* An adaptation of the Jean Anouilh comedy, Time Remembered, with Dame Edith Evans, in her American TV debut, and Christopher Plummer. Color...