Word: mindlessly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Poor is the answer to that question. Like The Asiatics its only plot is a record of travel, but this time the traveler is a 17-year-old boy bumming his way south from Wisconsin to his home in Texas. Tom starts out with his friend Pete, a mindless blond giant with curly hair on his chest who almost immediately mag netizes a colored farm girl, troubles Tom's flesh by getting as far as taking down her dress before he remembers to send Tom away. This scene, equal parts Steinbeck and Pierre Louys, is followed by a touch...
...verin, who mutters ominously that she must pay no attention to what his parents say against him, dreads her leaving, but seems so helpless in doing anything about it that he gives the impression of being a little feebleminded. Still stranger are their two children-round-faced, mindless, cheerful little Sophie; contemplative, mature, intuitive little Armand, who occasionally gives voice to gnomic philosophy, sees visions, hopes to be a monk. Enduring insults because of her dark skin, money troubles and sickness with the children, Renée gets this pair across France while her husband is transferred to a post...
...popular girl. As apprentice in a socialite dress shop she learned fast, soon became indispensable. The War brought her a young lover, then took him away before she could find out what love meant. So she married an importunate widower in uniform, and discovered that her husband was a mindless, exacting body. By the time she met Leonard, a mechanic on an aircraft carrier, she was ready for him. Though his leaves were far between they became increasingly desperate lovers, racked their wits for some way out of their mess. Julia's husband discovered their secret but refused to give...
...wife, to murder, and to suffer excess of thought; through all these turns with lady Fate, he avoids heroics, and at the same time veers away from the equally dangerous wall of intellectually squalid sentimentality which might so easily block his performance; he covers a middle-ground of mindless, emotionally dulled savagery which is absolutely genuine. The Eskimos in minor roles are ably directed; the more difficult parts, Mala's wives, are treated with a surprising delicacy...
...mistress and Laura (Alice Brady), who imagines herself to have been his mistress once. These two women scorned, naturally feel internally agitated at being cut out by a more twig, the niece of one, the daughter of the other. Alice Brady, in her role of a flighty and almost mindless but well-meaning woman, is perfectly at home; her lines are among the in the lot, and she delivers them with is which could not is surpassed. Lionel Bartymore, as grouohy Angustus, Laura's husband his usual fine, interpretation. The whole cast dovetail with each other and with the play...