Word: lives
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shabby affair with a frustrated bookseller, Clive Root (Paul Scofield). In a scene of Congrevous farce, the lovers are caught by Rhodes, but con their way to freedom. Eventually, Rhodes learns the truth, and Greene suddenly, boldly reveals the decent clod beneath a fool's veneer. Unable to live without his wife, he shamelessly offers to share her with the bookseller. At play's end, Mary and Clive prepare for a cold assignation in shabby rooms, already fearing that she will inevitably and finally escape to .the warming boredom of her husband. The question: Are the lovers more...
Even before she became a star, Ethel was a trouper. She knew what it was to make one-night stands in Main Street theaters, to sneak out of cheap hotels with the family luggage left behind in locked, unpaid-for rooms. She knew what it was to live in hall bedrooms that cost $9 a week, meals included. "It was a wonderful time to begin seeing America," said she, "just at the beginning of the changes that were to be so tremendous." For her, one-night stands were always good-in Jackson, or Little Rock, or Kalamazoo ("The celery...
...refuses to listen to reason from anyone; but he cannot entirely ignore the warning voice of fear. Does he really love the girl? Does he, at his age, really want to live the emotional life of a young man? Wouldn't he be wiser to act his age and somehow find his peace? In the happy-unhappy ending, the victim-hero of the drama accepts at life's hands the lesser evil, the larger hope...
Otto and Mary Krai, who live on a farm near Hastings, Minn., have one main goal in life: they want to educate their son. So last year they took seven-year-old Tommy out of Lakeland-Afton public school after watching him vegetate on a soda-pop diet of "life-adjustment" courses. Mary Krai is a former high school teacher; her 35-year-old husband is a professional mathematician. The Krals decided to school their bright but not prodigious boy at home (TIME, March 2). Tommy's six-or-seven-hours-a-day curriculum: arithmetic, grammar, German, geography, composition...
...chapters of the novel have the faintly embarrassing tone of a sermon in jazz language attempted by an overearnest cleric. The tormented murderer asks: "Why is it that if we could all learn to play together the way we did-why is it we couldn't learn to live together?" The narrator's sanctimonious reply: "Woody, if we could-even between us-answer that simple question-seemingly simple-we could turn this into a hip world." But the world remains sadly square, and in the highflying riff of moralizing, Old Jazzman Kanin has lost his novel...