Word: life
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DIRECTIONS (ABC, 1-1:30 p.m.). "Gandhi" is a drama sprinkled with film clips of the Indian leader's life...
...homosexual officer of the decaying Austro-Hungarian Empire who was forced to commit suicide when it was found that he had been selling state secrets to the Russians. Osborne's voice is badly muffled, and he cannot seem to work up the passion to breathe an inner life into the play...
...lots of servants, and best families. The proprieties of this world require that many things be hidden. People are driven to deviant behavior. Mr. Taylor's stories are shadowed by drunkards, bastardly men, spinsters, estranged wives who are dependent on their servants as their only friends, only family, only life. In almost every story a servant holds the family together. The servant presides over the rituals and amenities which bolster status, esteem, sanity-like having fingerbowls when there is grapefruit for breakfast, like having someone to keep the family supplied with "Negro jokes," or someone to fire when a mistress...
...describes those top-drawer people who grow into unhappy insurance men and car dealers. They are often incapable of a generous and rich relationship with a partner, with children, with-simply-any other human being. Mr. Taylor suggests that the family can effectively balance the fear and uncertainty of life. Yet this kind of security is not automatic. The man in "At the Drugstore" can say that he and his father "had . . . made these adjustments and concessions that a happy and successful life requires. . . . They had long ago absolved each other of any guilt. As two men, they respected each...
...Taylor hasn't given up his home territory. He uses its gossip and legends to extraordinarily document its life. The collected stories of Peter Taylor are a loving and polite indictment of Tennessee society, and of most everybody...