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With nuns all the rage this season, Playhouse 90's Four Women in Black put Helen Hayes through some listless paces as a saintly pioneer in Arizona, but she was largely overborne by Apaches, mesas of filmed cacti and a soporific script. On G.E. Theater's The Bitter Choice, Anne Baxter was hopelessly involved-and tearily terrible-as an Army nurse whose deliberate anger was supposed to scalpel through a G.I.'s shell of apathy. As Social Lioness Dolly Madison trying to make a Washington comeback, a bespectacled and bewigged Bette Davis had her moments on Ford...
Married. Harrison Freeman ("Doc") Matthews. 57, U.S. Ambassador to The Netherlands (awaiting reassignment in June), one of the U.S.'s four original "five-star diplomats"* and a 33-year career veteran; and Helen J. Skouland, 58. career member of the Foreign Service; both for the second time; in Zurich...
Toward Expiation. Morris Bober's world is bounded by his seedy store, his endlessly nagging wife Ida, his difficult daughter Helen-a girl who wants "to be a virgin again and at the same time a mother"-and his wealthy neighbor Karp, whose "every good fortune spattered others with misfortune, as if there were just so much luck in the world and what Karp left over wasn't fit to eat." Morris Bober's troubles never come singly. Not only has a brand-new grocery opened around the corner, halving his already pitiful income, but a pair...
...improves. Frank Alpine is slowly revealed as a man whose aspirations are several light-years ahead of his performance. He works hard, but cannot resist stealing from the till. Then Morris discovers that Frank is one of the two robbers who held him up. Worst of all, his daughter Helen has fallen in love with the new clerk. Morris fires him, but Frank comes back, dogged, penitent. In the end, by way of ultimate expiation, Frank gradually changes, and step by step becomes more and more like the grocer, assuming his burdens and his fate...
Against Windmills. Though Malamud's people have a bad time of it, they are never just helpless victims of life. Out of each debacle they draw surprising strength; always ready to charge the next windmill. Helen is convinced she will eventually get the college education that will change her life. Frank Alpine knows that some day he will find the self-discipline to keep him from always turning good into bad. Morris manages to get through each day without dishonesty or cheating. He dies of a heart bursting with regret that "I gave away my life for nothing...