Word: morels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time The Invention of Morel finally decides to stop loitering about the Lowell House dining room and get going, the last act is nearly over. Nearly over, yet not quite, and for a short while this "science fiction fantasy" comes up with the chills it has threatened to deliver all evening...
...under mounting pressure from all sides, and survives primarily because he has 9,200 OAS troops behind him. The country's military is increasingly bitter about the leftists in the Cabinet, and last week forced García-Godoy to oust a key minister: Attorney General Manuel Ramon Morel Cerda, who is accused in sworn testimony of being a Communist-which he denies though he makes no secret of his partiality for ex-President Juan Bosch and the rebels who originally triggered the civil...
...with the Communists, so I cannot be happy." Nor were his loyalist supporters, who complained that the new government had been too kind to the left in its first week. Even the U.S. was upset by Garcia-Godoy's choice of a far-leftist lawyer, one Manuel Ramon Morel, as his attorney general...
...actors match the director's performance. Trevor Howard's big physique, broad face and rumbling voice adapt themselves beautifully in portraying Walter Morel's vacillation between drunken violence and puppylike abjection before his wife and sons. Unable to understand his wife or to break her hold over Paul, he can only stage a series of futile revolts. Wendy Miller is equally successful as Mrs. Morel; her changes of expression at the slightest mention of a competitor for Paul's devotion are masterful. As Paul, Dean Slackwell is less convincing, but intense and labile enough. The camera catches the spirit...
Cardiff's economy in leaving out the first twenty years of the Morel family saga (as well as many of the lesser characters) is well justified, for the structure of the novel emerges all the more clearly. With considerable skill, he balances Mrs. Morel's almost morbid domination of Paul's sensitive and passionate nature with the physical inhibitions produced in Miriam by her mother's puritanical beliefs. The novel is rather humorless; Cardiff creates several badly needed moments of comic relief--such as an address from a stout suffragette. Most important, he never loses sight of Mrs. Morel...