Word: gentlemanly
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...State University of Iowa." The day the magazine hit the newsstands, we received phone calls from friends asking what we were doing with a socialist group "jeering, hooting and picketing" the Viet Nam debate. Actually, we were in attendance to lend support and strength to the visiting gentleman from the State Department. Not all of those in attendance were hostile. There was a scattering of so-called "right-wing terrorists" like ourselves who support present Viet Nam policies...
...ever become a general," the gentleman advised the young Army Reserve lieutenant standing guard at the World's Fair. "If you become a general you just plain have too much to worry about." Coming from Dwight D. Eisenhower, 74, that was certainly something to think about. Next day the old soldier's worry list lengthened unexpectedly. While he was in Washington for a physical checkup, thieves broke into his parked Lincoln Continental and found the secret button inside the glove compartment that unlocked the trunk. Though they left several suitcases of clothes, they heisted...
...deserted by her husband, and subsisting on delusions of genteel grandeur, wants to secure a suitable suitor for her slightly crippled daughter (Piper Laurie) who has withdrawn into the reverie world of her collection of tiny glass animals. The restive son of the house (George Grizzard) brings home a "gentleman caller" (Pat Hingle) who arouses the girl's interest and then, guiltlessly, inadvertently, breaks her pet unicorn and -by revealing that he is already engaged-her heart...
...tribute to the resilience of the play and the mastery of the playwright that, in the current revival. The Glass Menagerie somehow survives the guiltless and inadvertent miscasting of three of its four roles. The gentleman caller, expertly modeled by Pat Hingle, can be of the commonest clay, but the three family parts must be made of glass just like the toy menagerie...
...tombstones with a sudden ineluctable rush of life. Perhaps it is moving precisely because it is a play of the spirit that moves from death toward life. The mother is throttled by her illusions, the daughter is felled by the brute strength of the world, and the gentleman caller founders in the anonymous quicksand of being average. But the son Tom, the writer-to-be in this distinctly autobiographical play, is about to be born to his vocation and to the appalling and enthralling adventure of becoming himself...