Word: idyls
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...lovers' idyl was in reality saddened by Elizabeth's repeated miscarriages and poor health, by Browning's continual worry over his lack of recognition, by the freezing disdain of "Sweet Puppy," who never forgave Elizabeth for marrying...
...plot opens with a bonny-faced convict (Kieron Moore) returning to the postcard hamlet of Kilwirra to clear himself of the robbery charges against him. In the process, he inadvertently proves all the other villagers dishonest. The philosophical implications of this gentle-paced idyl are sometimes furthered and sometimes obscured by the emotional didos of a ponderously melancholy siren (Christine Norden) and a fiercely spiritual little barmaid (Sheila Manahan...
...Sunday Afternoon (Warner) is an old story with its face lifted for the third time.* At this point, it wears a starchy mask, and its smiles creak painfully. It is an idyl of the Gay Nineties, and the costumes have a bustley charm; but the girls who wear them are addicted to Technicolor simpers. The love stories of the two young couples (Dennis Morgan and Dorothy Malone, Don DeFore and Janis Paige) reach a high point when they go for a spin in the park in a horseless carriage-a singularly low-voltage form of sparking. Not much else happens...
Intruder in the Dust makes the reader work, it is not easy reading. But the reward is worth the trouble. It can be read as a detective story, a humorous idyl (a kind of second cousin to Huckleberry Finn), an outraged, descriptive exhortation to Southern society, a parable of modern life. It is also a triumphant work...
...President. The darkest blot on the Philippine idyl is the two-year-old insurrection of the Hukbalahaps* of central Luzon. Although they are led by Communists, most Huks (pronounced hooks) are still (as the Chinese Communists once pretended to be) basically discontented farmers. The main demand of the Huks is for abolition of the absentee landlord system; or, failing that, for enforcement of an already existing rice tenancy law (70% for the tenant, 30% for the landlord). The late President Manuel Roxas refused their demands, unseated seven Congressmen sympathetic to the Huks. The Philippines' fat, hard-driving new President...