Word: girlishness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Barbara stands 5 ft. 3 in. tall, weighs a mere 113 Ibs., tosses her burnished, straw-colored hair in a girlish bob, and gazes at the world through clear hazel eyes. In a medium where pose and posture are the standards, she is almosl startlingly forthright. Painfully self-conscious under scrutiny, uninhibited among close friends, Barbara can cuss like a longshoreman and make it sound as offhand as a schoolgirl's "Jeepers." The effect of such artlessness on the stage is to make practically anything Barbara does seem credible and convincing. One mark of her real talent lies...
What poetry and picturesqueness Angel possesses stem from John E. Blankenchip's set and lighting, and Will Irwin's incidental music. The play itself is as devoid of charm as it is of sense, and the players do not help much. Joan McCracken is almost overbearingly girlish. Eddie Dowling - dying at the end with a bright smile and a brighter spotlight on his face - displays his habitual unconquerable benevolence, his seeming desire to bring to humanity all the year round what A Christmas Carol brings it at Christmas...
...adulation of the students, becomes comedy, character study and charming fable all in one. In a brief, seemingly unambitious book, without spelling anything out, Green gets a great deal said, and more understood, about what people are really like. The querulousness of old age, the cunning and hardness underneath girlish innocence, the selfishness that sparks a lot of human behavior, good and bad, are all explored without an explicit statement about any of them. Even the pall of living under an unimaginative socialist regime is understood without being underscored...
...libretto went through four editions in a few weeks. She wrote less & less. In her mid-40s, stirred by rumblings of World War II, she called her muse to the colors, but seldom got beyond the rear areas. The respectable versifying of her last years never recaptured the fine girlish frenzy...