Word: manticism
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HELLO, DOLLY! In a bouncy, daffy, ro mantic Little Old New York musical Matchmaker Carol Channing juggles lonely hearts and sassily wangles one fo herself...
...contrary, she is the one person sane. Seeress, she can see the crimes already wreaked under that roof, and foresee the two about to follow, the murder of Agamemnon and of herself. Her speeches begin with little more than unintelligible bird-like cries of mantic possession, but gradually clarify to explicit prophecy, yet all opaque to the listeners ... The Queen reappears to order her indoors. Cassandra stands still, rapt and benumbed, in her chariot where she has been left when the King, quiting his, has walked into his palace on that fatal Purple Carpet, very symbol of mortals trampling...
Majestic Darkness. Most of his poems are personal-neither jeweled cenotaph nor mantic dispatches from a muse, but gifts of self. One reflects, while reading them (dropping a mental footnote to the chalkier conundrums of Pound and Eliot), how lightly the weight of their author's erudition bears down. Graves can write with warm wit, in Friday Night, of a meeting between Jove and Love...
...runaway truck miss a pretty girl by inches, smells a rat, sets up as a private nose, and, like a questing Quixote with a paunchy Panza (Peter Lorre) at his heels, sets out to rescue his damsel in distress. In the course of the hero's aro-mantic maunderings, the customer gets quite an eyeful of Spain: the Alhambra, the Alcazaba, the Cathedral at Malaga, the bullfights at Pamplona. He also gets a snootful: apples, peaches, brandy, wine, tobacco, shoe polish, peppermint, roses, garlic, not to mention the local skunks (Peter Arne, Paul Lukas). All in all, everybody will...
September Affair (Paramount), a slick product for a ready market, is just what a cynic might arrive at if he tried to imagine how Hollywood would have made Britain's 1946 Brief Encounter. Like the British picture, September Affair tells a wistfully ro mantic story of a couple thrown together into what readers of women's-magazine fiction know as a love that can never...