Word: grahame
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...middle-aged London accountant named Graham Merrill (Bill Travers) buys an otter to keep it from becoming a captive circus performer. Given his freedom, the animal returns the favor by wrecking Merrill's city flat and showing him that happiness is a cottage in Scotland. Merrill blithely quits his insurance job, hies to the highlands and begins a life of happy isolation. Even in children's films, a man cannot drift for long before a pair of pretty eyes begin blinking like a lighthouse. Here they belong to Virginia Mc-Kenna-Mrs. Travers in real life...
...instead pledged himself to consolidate and manage. He has walked through his role austerely, a man alone much of the time, not posturing or parading, but embracing the "normalcy" of those middle-class Americans who voted for him. His priorities read neatly-Viet Nam, inflation and crime. Billy Graham's spirituality pervades, the humor is genteel, and the thoughts drape sensibly, like Pat Nixon's wardrobe. The effect in Oklahoma and Colorado and Iowa, if not in the ghettos, is to stimulate faith. Nixon's memorized facts of national life are delivered with an easy candor over...
Well she might be. The extraordinary reputation of Martha Graham as a creator of dance steins not merely from the fact that she invented a new alphabet of movement, but that she then also applied that alphabet to the making of words and sentences. Any modern dancer today owes practically his whole range of action to her pioneering. More important, Martha Graham incorporated that vocabulary of movement into a series of dances that leave an audience both stunned and baffled, touched and terrified by the power of motion to create a mirror of the human psyche. Says Teacher-Choreographer Jeff...
...Graham philosophy of movement evolved from a desire to expand the stylized, confining vocabulary of ballet, which had been worked out largely as a series of infinite variations on two basic motions, the walk and the bow. To Graham, any human movement was a dancer's possibility, the fall to the floor no less than the leap into the air. She brought the alphabet forward from A and B all the way to Z. She emerged when Sigmund Freud was a major cultural hero. Partly as a result of his influence, she developed a symbolism that replaced ballet...
Townrow is not undeserving of his fate. A failed theological student, a failed husband, he wears the dank, damned look of a Graham Greene reject. His main achievement in 35 years has been to embezzle money from a charity fund dedicated to the memory of drowned Boy Scouts. With modest accuracy, he describes himself as given to "spasms of dishonesty, lechery and disloyalty...