Word: looks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bless My Soul!" Generations of students at Cambridge and London, and later at Harvard, learned to look alive when he exploded "God bless my soul!" That invocative usually heralded a significant pronouncement. His voice, in later years somewhat shrill, had the range of a roller coaster. In cutaway coat with stiff collar and ascot tie, Whitehead paced the lecture platform with hands in pockets. Vestigial tufts of white hair fringing a shiny bald pate made him look, said one pupil, "like an angel whose halo had slipped." Now & then Whitehead arrested his pacing to sketch a deceptively simple blackboard diagram...
...mayhem with a motive. So people thought Notre Dame was 1947's team of the year, did they? Crisler was out to set the record straight-by beating Southern California worse than Notre Dame had (38 to 7). On grass sprayed with paint to look even greener (for this was in Southern California), the Rose Bowl slaughter continued before 93,000 surprised witnesses...
...rule, to a wholly unprecedented face. But it was soon clear also that Peck was no carbon copy, but a distinct and engaging new personality. He has a face which Mary Morris of PM has aptly described as "early American." It can, of course, be dangerous to look enough like Abraham Lincoln to suffer by comparison or to seem to be plagiarizing. At certain unfortunate moments Peck looks merely like a pretty Lincoln; but he never looks like a silly one, a road-show impersonator, or a sandwich man for the Republican Party...
...financed group of movie people (Cotten, Jennifer Jones, Dorothy McGuire, et al.) who do stage-acting in their spare time. But it will be a long time-three years at least-before he can hope to work again on Broadway. "The stage, yes," he now says with a hounded look, "when 1 get through with these commitments...
...virtuoso might have saved. But there is no good reason why either Peck or his admirers need worry about his future. For the camera's purposes, his lean, bony face is the sort that is practically indestructible. For the next 20 years, he is not likely to look enough older to damage him as a leading man. And his place in movies is already high, secure and respectably unique...