Word: lorded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Antilles, now nearing the end of an evolution into a federation that will make them the hemisphere's 23rd nation, last week got a Governor General-the first symbol of their unity. In the rambling Legislative Council Chamber in Trinidad, the federation's capital, Britain's Lord Hailes, 56. took his oath of office before Trinidad's Chief Justice...
...master and servant down on a desert island, and within two years a society without social distinctions has become one in which the class system is firmly established. But natural selection, not the accident of birth, has made the master the man, the man master. As Crichton wins his lord's daughter (Sally Ann Howes), it is plain, Playwright Barrie seems to be saying, that quality is the better part of equality...
...Providence has under its special care children, idiots, and the United States of America." This famed remark, attributed to Lord Bryce (The American Commonwealth), was a Briton's backhanded way of saying that the U.S. was a success. With few such perceptive quips but a relentless, mind-clogging avalanche of scholarly quotes, furrow-browed Columnist (New York Post) Max Lerner, 55, says much the same thing in his physically massive (1,036 pages) survey of America as a Civilization. The unavowed note of irony is that, like many a liberal-leftist prodigal son of the age, Lerner, who regularly...
...turn-of-the-century sort who believes quite firmly that for a man of his birth and talents, a position as a gentleman's gentleman is ideal. Similarly, thinks Crichton, his master's ideas about equality are not only dangerous but wrong. Crichton's philosophy is sorely tested when Lord Loam and his daughter are marooned along with Crichton and a few other on a desert island...
...motion picture is a charming combination of satire, whimsy, and melodrama. As Crichton, Kenneth More is proper--yet moving. Cecil Parker is a blusteringly good Lord Loam and Sally Howes is not only beautiful, but acts, too. The adaptation suffers somewhat from an inability to smooth out the entrances and scene changes which are an accepted part of the theater, but unsettling on the screen. The movie's ending was probably more convincing 50 years ago, but is still acceptable. The evening as a whole is quite enjoyable...