Word: forested
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Another Part of the Forest. Lillian Hellman's feral study of family life in the Deep South; acted, tooth & nail, by Fredric March, Florence Eldridge, and a strong supporting cast (TIME...
Probe Yourself. At Gordonstoun last week, on the bleakly beautiful Morayshire coast of Scotland, 300 youngsters were busy manning coastguard lookouts, spotting forest fires, working at the village smithy, and striving mightily to win badges for moral and physical fitness. Headmaster Hahn is sure that his schools have found William James's "moral equivalent of war." Says Hahn: "One of the mysterious currents making for war ... is the longing of the young to probe their reserves of ... endurance, daring and resourcefulness." One who probed himself: Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, onetime Guardian (head boy) of Gordonstoun. At the Hahn...
Another Part of the Forest. Lillian Hellman's feral study of family life in the Deep South; acted, tooth & nail, by Fredric March, Florence Eldridge, and a strong supporting cast (TIME...
Another Part of the Forest (Universal-International) is Lillian Hellman's study of the five Little Foxes and how they grew; the Hubbard family is seen in 1880, 20 years before The Little Foxes. They are a horrifying image of the newborn New South: a self-made, egomaniacal father (Fredric March); a deeply pious, almost mindless mother (March's wife Florence Eldridge); a mild-seeming, Machiavellian son (Edmond O'Brien); a whining, fatuous son (Dan Duryea); a diamond-hard daughter (Ann Blyth). Night & day they connive against each other; during any chance breathing spell they work...
Around them was a great, illiterate, hot-tempered, lazy group of poor whites-in De Forest's district they were called "the low-down people"-the descendants of farmers whose farms had been bought by the planters. In this class, two-thirds of the men had been killed or crippled in the war. They were wretched beyond description, living in cabins with hencoop sides and porous roofs. Wrinkled, filthy, with desperate eyes and unkempt hair, they chewed tobacco, drank, fought, lived a life "of rare day's works, some begging, some stealing, much small, illicit bargaining, and frequent...