Word: meredith
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...narration and music, however, veer sharply from Stobart's camera technique. Meredith Edwards, in voicing the sometimes Biblical-sounding narration, rolls his R's with as much power as the occasional avalanches. The original underscoring, while appropriately Himalayan and amusing at times, disgorges climax after climax during some of the climbing episodes. Your soon come to imagine the crest of Everest in every frequent shot of a minor crag...
...Meredith Wilson...
...high aims at high altitudes, bigamy is a mere narrow-minded epithet, and the feelings of his Wilmington wife (Martha Scott), on hearing the Philadelphia story, are to be placated by friendly words and a few flowers. Necessarily, there are bourgeois complications. Yet, as played with gusto by Burgess Meredith, Mr. Pennypacker is no less a devoted family man for having one family too many, and no less a man of principle for having principles all his own. The whole play is geared to the level of farce; but though the level is sustained, the leverage falters. Mr. Pennypacker...
...remaining literary biographies, some were dull but useful (F. Holmes Dudden's exhaustive Henry Fielding, Leon Edel's first volume of Henry James) ; some were long on sympathy if short on brilliance (Reginald Pound's Arnold Bennett, Lionel Stevenson's able Ordeal of George Meredith); and a few actually enlarged their subjects' dimensions (Betty Miller's Robert Browning, David Magarshack's Chekhov, Antony Alpers' Katherine Mansfield). In one book that was not properly a biography, two well-known men told a great deal about themselves and about each other...
...reader. In Le Fanu's The Room in the Dragon Volant, a rich and credulous Englishman is tricked on a trip to France by a pretty girl and a couple of Gallic sharpsters, but emerges somewhat wiser from the coffin in which they have nailed him. In Meredith's The Case of General Ople and Lady Camper, a complex English lady joins battle with a simple British general, reduces his defenses, and finally takes him into her camp as a lifetime ally. In Huxley's The Farcical History of Richard Greenow, a brilliant young man is possessed...