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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Look Back in Anger. Playwright John Osborne's fairly arresting snarl at all the world. In MILWAUKEE...
...might be expected, the hero's methods of psychotherapy are suggested more by a sense of what the public wants to see than by any notion of what the doctor should order. He simply marches the heroine up to the edge of a cliff, forces her to look down, and coldly announces that her eyes are healed-if she can't see, it is because she does not want to see "things as they are." Things being as they are in this slick and artificial western, the spectator can hardly blame and may even envy...
...millipede gone mad. Karl Maiden makes a memorably silly-sinister billy goat. Actress Schell, holding a hard rein on her sentimental excesses, gives a gracious, intelligent performance. And though Actor Cooper, when required to produce the piercingly analytic stare, can do no more than push out his chin and look as though he is about to whinny, he demonstrates in a hundred subtle little platitudes of the prairie that he sure does know his oats...
...takes mother and son to his country estate, and for a while they are both very happy. Apu plays in the fields and studies to be a priest like his father-a matter that involves more folklore than book learning. Yet one day Apu comes home with a faraway look in his eyes. "Mother," he announces, "I want to go to school...
...modestly working in the same vein of common humanity and still echo the old wonder of life, as when an aged wanderer in Loaf Sugar sighs: "It's a pity to die, to go away from people's kindness. Ooh, what a pity it is! When I look at the forests, and the clear water, and the children and the grasses, I just haven't got the strength...