Word: inwardly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...here and there on the stage the story loses a certain inward glow, it gains in outward color from snatches of song or the interplay of street voices. With the performers-particularly George Brenlin as Sean and Aline MacMahon as the mother-providing a resonant voice box, I Knock at the Door wisely puts adroit storytelling ahead of theatrical effect. If four walls and a passion can make a good play, almost as much can be had from six chairs and a prose style; and an ounce of Cavendish cut-plug can be worth a pound of routine theatrics...
...Marilyn grew up, she felt herself-in the shadow of her favored sister Arlene, who is three years older. She turned moody and inward, took to her room to scribble poetry-a kind of release to which she has resorted ever since. Recalls Actress Novak: "I was real skinny, real anemic. In school I was always in the last row or next-to-last row, according to the marks. I was seated with the jerks...
...murmurs of dissent, attempts to guide Stalin along other paths. But the mysterious demise of a number of high Politburo-crats halted any defiance from on high. The result was, says Robert C. Tucker, who spent 5½years in the U.S. embassy in Moscow as an attache, an "inward migration'' of the Russian people. Boredom, cynicism, and mediocrity-what the NKVD called "formalism"-characterized almost all cultural and political life...
...Lady Hurf, who proclaims herself "born a piece of old carpet" and "disintegrating with boredom." Jane McArthur brings sparkling eyes, a beautiful pony-tail coiffure and the buoyancy of Susan Strasberg to the part of the 20-year-old niece. As the elder niece Eva, Monica Lovett shows her inward sadness and disillusionment in good Donna Reed fashion. Lance Cunard and Dalila Mockapetris fill out smaller roles...
Clothes & Shoes. But the breathless sense of urgency and the inward knowledge that in undermanned, underfed, underdeveloped Middle Africa today each needs the other has infected all races. Each jealously watchful of its own fancied prerogatives, the multicolored people of Africa are learning, often faster than they want to, how to live and work together. Those who proclaim that the white man's day is done, and are convinced that the African is ready to take over without help, speak too quickly. Without British aid and guidance, Ghana's ambitious Twi Tribesman Nkrumah could never have founded...