Word: mothers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...acre family farm in rolling Orange County. There, near the tiny village of Locust Grove on the Chancellorsville battlefield, just four miles from the Wilderness thicket where Stonewall Jackson was mortally wounded by his own men, Lindsay Almond grew up. Lindsay did farm chores, worked nights with his mother at the kitchen table, learned to read and write even before he trudged off for the first time to the little white school a mile away...
...Adrian wrung every drop out of the part of 'Liza's father. Kilty was a model Professor Higgins, and Cavada Humphrey was properly reginal as the professor's Victorian mother...
...daughter Sara, portrayed with grace by Kim Stanley, grows in love only when she can decide his fault, which she so clearly sees, is extraneous to that love. She despairs when her father comes at last to see himself as he is, then agrees with her simple mother that the vanished hero dwelt only in the mind and let it be. These are two great women...
...prospective mother-in-law for Sara Melody, Betty Field is amusing enough but never really very necessary. Her role reveals how unpolished much of this sprawling piece...
...Failure. Zhivago's tortuous path takes him from boyhood at his mother's grave through the lurid landscape of war and revolution. An utterly credible and pitiable man. he is seen first as a student whose gift for happiness makes him feel lost among the fanatical miseries of Russian revolutionary youth. All are anarchists, nihilists. pro-Bolsheviks: young Zhivago is merely human, and he remains stubbornly human as he moves through marriage, friendships, his career as a physician, front-line service in World War I. In the vast plains of Russia, he seeks to shelter his family from...