Word: happiered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Archibald Joseph Cronin (Hatter's Castle, The Citadel, The Keys of the Kingdom) is a zealous Scots Catholic who is never happier than when he is drawing moral conclusions from immoral behavior. But until he was 34, Cronin suppressed his urge to self-expression and buried himself in the "sensible . . . safe and practical" pursuit of medicine. The result was just the opposite of what Dr. Cronin had hoped it would be: the more patients he attended, the more he "kept thinking . . . what stories I could make of them...
...Even Franchot Tone would have been a happier selection...
Desire Under the Elms (by Eugene O'Neill) opened a new season for the American National Theater & Academy. As a choice-on-paper, this major O'Neill effort is far happier than most of ANTA's previous offerings. As an actual stage piece, it leaves much to be desired under the elms. In it O'Neill boldly grappled with the most rooted intensities and twisted passions. But for all its insistent starkness, Desire lacks stature, and the ANTA production, by acting everything out in italics, tends to accentuate the play's shortcomings...
...freshmen provided a happier note as Al Howe ran a strong anchor leg to hold off Yale's Henry Thresher and win, going away by 30 yards...
...TIME apologizes to all gentry concerned for using the term "bribery." As for Editor Pine's office, which is in a 50-year-old building, he thinks a happier description would be "modern...