Word: infantability
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...disadvantages. It is so unpretentious as to be unsuited to any production style less intimate than very small theater-in-the-round. In addition, it has virtually no plot. Playwrights Gregorio and Maria Martinez Sierra have merely chronicled two days eighteen years apart. In the first act, an unwanted infant girl is left on the doorstep of a convent of Dominican nuns, and the sisters decide to raise the child. In the second, the girl, now eighteen years old, is leaving the convent to get married. In terms of standard theatrical material, that's all there...
...after a drinking bout, Joe's lovable wife dies of TB after bearing two children, and Joe steps out to the barn and puts a bullet through his brain. Ella, a younger sister and her mother have moved to a nearby small town and taken Joe's infant sons with them. But tragedy has not softened mamma. Her nose comes out of the Old Testament only to sniff disapprovingly, and Ella's fun is limited to sneak meetings with a minister's daughter where they flirt with the devil by eating forbidden candy...
...Edmund Vincent Cowdry, anatomist at St. Louis' Washington University: "The emphasis is going off youth and going on age. Geriatrics is where pediatrics was 40 years ago. It has been the unwanted child. But grandmother must have her specialist, too. It took medicine centuries to discover that the infant is not just a little man, and to set up the specialty of pediatrics. It has taken longer for medicine to learn that the elderly person is not just...
...somewhat distinguished from the others in France's ever-normal granary by Fernandel, France's top comedian, playing the illegitimate tyke's paternal grandpa. As the headstrong village baker, Fernandel is volubly insistent that his son would never do such a thing, refuses to recognize the infant as a descendant...
...globe-circling Indonesian President Sukarno, whose republic is an infant democracy, Pope Pius XII passed on an ideal of democratic maturity: "Tranquillity and order, security and liberty under divine justice, so that citizens can [achieve] physical, intellectual and moral progress." Moslem Sukarno agreed...