Word: frigidities
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...roles have been more sympathetically played, however, than Joan Fontaine as Prudence Cathaway, a very human daughter of a frigid and aristocratic British family. Her enlistment in the WAAF and her subsequent love for Clive are convincing where it would be easiest to become theatrical. Thomas Mitchell as the faithful Monty shares with Miss Fontaine the acting honors of the film. In his blind faith for England and his earthy view of life, he is as true to the spirit of the book as Tyrone Power is false...
Carl Hasselmann and his sister Ellie, provincial, supersensitive Americans, dwell in the uneasy revulsions of a sort of spiritual incest. They represent, respectively, the frigid, inhumane predicament of mind-without-spirit and the equally suicidal predicament of spirit-without-mind. Carl's mental drive stretches him flat on the altar he has built before a hypnotic social theorist. Ellie is impelled to sacrifice herself to the "resurrection" of an aging, rich sophisticate. The earlier phases of these relationships are ground out with a skillful, meat-grinder tenacity worthy of tougher meat...
Whether he asked for it or not, heavyset, heavily solemn Governor Wilson had the backing of the isolationist Chicago Tribune. Chiding Thornburg for tying "himself to Willkie's kite," the Tribune proclaimed: "At the Republican State headquarters there is a natural frigidity towards Willkie." Frigid or not, Iowa rejected Willkie-backed Thornburg for Tribune-backed Wilson...
Like Napoleon, Adolf Hitler last week left Russia. But Hitler left only to make a speech (see p. 28). From the still-frigid shores of Lake Ladoga to the thawing quagmires of the Ukraine, his armies were proving better than Bonaparte's. The Russians kept slogging away at them. But they still held most of the great objectives that the Russians wanted before spring...
...Design for Scandal" is a tribute to Rosalind Russell's versatility as a comedienne. This time she plays the frigid woman-judge whose only weakness is a chronic allergy to roses, "a human law-book" with about as much passion as the statues she carves for a hobby. Eventually, Her Honor is thawed out by the persevering attentions of Walter Pidgeon, who performs the sequence of boy meeting, losing and regaining girl with a minimum of hamming and a maximum of savior faire...