Word: loving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contriving as the type for sexual relationships in the real world; on maintaining as the order of existence that women initiate such relationships and men are "the pursued, the marked down quarry, the destined prey"; on reiterating that what we are accustomed to think of as love, or infatuation, or lust, according to the circumstances or our temperament, is really God or Nature or the Life Force making purposeful experiments in eugenics. But this can be dismissed as another example of Shaw's tendency to exaggerate, to generalize, and to dogmatize about matters concerning which he knew nothing...
...propound," says Shaw to Walkley, "a certain social substance, sexual attraction to wit, for dramatic distillation; and I distill it for you." Thus the main plot of Man and Superman, a sort of Love's Labour's Won with woman as the laborer and man as the winnings; a "serio-comic love chase"; a nimble game in dead earnest of Higher Hide-and-Seek...
...happened, the lunch never came off. and De Vries, like a character in one of his novels (Comfort Me with Apples, The Mackerel Plaza. The Tunnel of Love), was left wistfully savoring the sour cream of the jest. This touch of rueful, pun-prone phantasmagoria has made 49-year-old Peter De Vries the leading comic geographer of commuterland. Humorist De Vries surveys his world with the wacky vision of a man who has inadvertently put on the wrong pair of glasses...
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 pm.). Rerun time stalks the nation as, for the second time, Edward G. Robinson falls in love with a small-town New England schoolteacher...
...Story. Audrey Hepburn, as a Roman Catholic nun who decides that it is love of self rather than love of God that has driven her to-and from-her calling, is too antiseptic in her performance, but the story is a natural and the camera work almost dazzlingly beautiful...