Word: gauntness
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Seeded second is Cecil North of Princeton. Williams' Dick Squires is rated third, with Rick Gaunt of the University of Toronto fourth. Navy's John Organ and Penn'z Dick Stewart are fifth and sixth respectively. Seeded seventh is Dartmouth's Steve Foster, and Army's Dan Hutchinson is eight...
...faithful to the spirit of C. S. Forester's 1935 novel. Bogart, cast as a Canadian instead of a Cockney, does the best acting of his career as the badgered rumpot who becomes a man and a lover against his will. Katharine Hepburn is excellent as the gaunt, freckled, fanatic spinster. Their contrasting personalities fill the film with good scenes, beginning with Bogart's tea-table agony as the indelicate rumbling of his stomach keeps interrupting Missionary Robert Morley's chitchat about dear old England...
Home on leave from his post as U.S. consul and diplomatic agent at Tangier, the gaunt, silver-haired diplomat testified publicly last week in his own defense. Budenz, he told Senator McCarran's Internal Security subcommittee, was a liar; and we "cannot defend democracy with perfidy or defeat Communism with lies." Four days of questioning revealed little to support Budenz' charge...
These contrasts also persist in his appearance. He is the most unmiddle-aged of men, having the gaunt features and detached air of an old man, mixed with the shyness and sudden malice of a child. It is as though a Marx brother had become an archbishop, or even more impressive, an archbishop had the gifts of a Marx brother...
...their father dead, brother schemes against brother, a young woman marries a fanatical old man, then seduces his son to obtain an heir. But Desire Under the Elms concerns more than an actual fight over land: its harsh primitivism seeks to lay bare a crippling Puritanism, to paint a gaunt New England landscape of the mind and will...