Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recounts with some awe the story of how John, having completed a deeply painful story about his older brother Fred, became convinced that something was amiss with him in real life, rose from bed, drove through the night for three hours, and indeed found his brother in Connecticut helpless, alone and in dire medical straits...
...wife is his foil. Alison, played by Susan Cowles, is the rich girl--beautiful, but poor in spirit--"pusillanimous" Jimmy calls her. Miss Cowles, like everyone else in the play, suffers from comparison with Teuber. But she is lovely indeed, as she is supposed to be, and properly helpless before her husband's eruptions. Her acting is strongest when she confronts Jimmy's taunts and ugly accusations; left to herself or with the other characters the pace very often drags and the scene settles into finger-tapping dullness until Teuber returns. This is a small criticism. Teuber...
Once again, the savage Jeunesse of Kwilu province were on the rampage. This time the rebel killers chose the helpless little Roman Catholic mission at Makungika, 30 miles from Kikwit, the provincial capital. The attack came late one afternoon just as the mission staff-five French Canadian brothers, three Belgian Jesuit priests, five young Belgian lay teachers, and two wives-were going to the refectory for coffee...
Some of the girls think that Sandy is really cutesy, to borrow a pejorative coinage from the play itself, because she deliberately stumbles all over her lines and waves her hands helplessly like a three-year-old, soaking up empathy for her inability to cope with the world. The girls might well ask: If she is so helpless, how did she land the president of the company...
...been "a bit of a liar." Sybil goes dutifully up to London for the great confrontation scene. Finding Alex feverishly ill, she hustles the girl down to Oxfordshire to convalesce under Owen's roof. Nights, wife and mistress sit contentedly together doing jigsaw puzzles; occasionally they dissolve into helpless laughter at the thought of Owen's predicament. The poor, ridiculous man has what amounts to a personal harem, except that neither woman will have anything to do with...