Word: idyl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people, young Maud and Dave Higgens were enchanted by the idea of escaping dull jobs in New York and going to live on a lovely island. Actually, they were misfits, "artistic" without being artists, totally unable to cope with life. At first, life on the island was the idyl they had dreamed, but when their money ran out and children came, the cruel business of earning a living in a hard country turned romance into a poverty-draped nightmare. With charity, economy, and a nice sense of fictional pace. Author Etnier generates complete sympathy for weaklings who learn too late...
...back out of , whack doing a tango and, after trying to keep on for two more days, finally stopped because of the pain. Daddy threatened to fire him if he ever started up again. Last week John was gloomily attempting to clear away the debris of his terpsichorean idyl...
Hollow in Huntington. Among the most revealing was The Painter of the Hole, I, a nihilistic idyl done in 1948. It suggests that Grosz, who at 60 lives a quiet, suburban life in Huntington, N.Y., is still obsessed with despair. A hollow man sits in a Waste Land landscape daubing at a canvas on which is painted nothing but a big hole. Rats, which to Grosz represents man's conscience "always gnawing at him for the deed he did not do," chew at the easel. This painter once believed in something, explains Grosz, but now he paints only...
...first work was Notturno, by Austria-born Ernst Toch, who now lives in California. It turned out to be a modest idyl that the 66-year-old composer describes as "visions of the night." Its strings and woodwinds sang sweetly, the orchestra played it well, and the small (about 200) crowd thought it was a fitting beginner for the series...
Actress Gardner, cast as a sort of one-girl Friendship Club, arrives at Gable's African animal farm to keep a date with a maharaja. When she finds that her potentate has gone back to the Punjab, Ava companionably moves in with Gable, only to have her idyl interrupted by the arrival of a British anthropologist (Donald Sinden) and his aristocratic, susceptible wife (Grace Kelly). On safari, the camera keeps one travelogue eye on natives, chest-thumping gorillas and the lush African landscape, but concentrates mainly on a heavy-breathing triangle involving Ava, Gable and Grace. After 116 minutes...