Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blushingly confess, the mother of four children, the oldest of whom is nearly four, so I am used to all sorts of inferential insults, ranging from "Medieval!" to "Get a calendar!"-this last from Catholics...
...season when the public snubbed the critics. Despite a strong press, Life with Mother and The Traitor flopped financially; despite a badly mixed press, Where's Charley? and Jean Giraudoux's enchanting Madwoman of Chaillot flourished. Musically, 1948-49 could point with pride to Kiss Me, Kate as well as South Pacific; but, to only one enjoyable revue, Lend an Ear. It was a season when the mourners' bench was lined with Tennessee Williams, Clifford Odets, John van Druten, Kaufman & Ferber, Garson Kanin, Marc Connelly...
With remarkable skill, this single-cylinder fantasy has somehow been kept in motion by Director Lloyd Bacon (Mother-Is a Freshman) and Writer Valentine Davies (Miracle on 34th Street), who apparently have a gift for making a fairly funny movie out of a downright silly idea. Even so, without the sly comedy sense of Veteran Milland and the pug-faced antics of Paul Douglas, Every Spring could easily have struck out in the second reel...
From the cradle, Goethe had both talent and audacity. At seven, he believed that his future greatness was assured by the stars at his birth. When his mother told him that men have to get along without the aid of the stars, the little boy retorted: "I can't get along with what suffices other people...
...reader is plunged into an atmosphere of family hatreds and tensions that recalls Playwright Eugene O'Neill at his grimmest. Whisky-soaked father Bridges hates his domineering, straitlaced, Bible-reading wife ("A clothespin in bed . . . Gotta keep drinkin' just to forget the 'normous wooden clothes-pin"). Mother Bridges, on her side, despises Bridges for his worthlessness, his decayed delusions of get-rich-quick grandeur...