Word: minding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...essays Virginia Woolf approached writers of the past and present with the same questions in mind. She wrote about Jane Austen's conscience, Defoe's advanced attitude toward women and Sterne's troublesome ghost. She probed the minds of writers as different as Montaigne and Ring Lardner-and brought them all to quickened life; she made them seem contemporaries...
...upset by the parachute arrival of Adrian Bullivant, a British officer and even more of a weakling than most weak young men in modern British novels. He has come to instruct the 23rd Corps to blow up a dam in behalf of the Allied armies, but once his foggy mind grasps the impossibility of such a project he settles down to enjoy life...
...Double Life. Ronald Colman has a field day as an actor who loses himself -and his mind - in his part (TIME...
...Neill employed the classical plot as a framework in which he could examine dramatically the suppressed guilt he saw in the Puritan mind. The murder and desire for revenge that divides the austere Mannon family into two camps is also the conflict between Puritanical repression and the open sensuality of the foreigner. Except for details of place and time, O'Neill has not had to change Aeschylus' story at all: the Trojan War has become the Civil War, and Agemmemnon is now the victorious General Ezra Mannon...
...Michael Redgrave, commits suicide himself, while Lavinia, played by Rosalind Russell with what is probably the best acting of her career, retires to the Mannon mansion to spend the rest of her life suffering for her ancestors' misdoings. The conflict of the picture is seen complete in Lavinia's mind, for she, first a Puritanical Mannon, becomes more and more like her mother, although she finally rejects her last chance of marriage...