Word: pamela
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...chronicle, Becket distorts history, Saxonizes the Norman Becket, and even turns Henry's formidable mate, Eleanor of Aquitaine (Pamela Brown), into a dull castle frump. As tragedy, it has more dry intelligence than real depth. As production, it stunningly displays its homework in the solid sweep of Norman arches, the mist-and-heath-er greens of old England. But in the end it holds interest chiefly as a pageant so prodigally endowed with talent that it can, for example, afford to squander Sir John Gielgud in a minor role as Louis VII of France...
...sensational nature. I am against censoring it except for people under 21," John M. Bullitt, professor of English, said last night. Bullitt, whose course, English 141, studies the period in which Fanny Hill was published, explained that the novel is historically important as an extreme example of the "anti-Pamela" tradition in English literature. Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded is an eighteenth-century defense of chastity...
...kindness, flash a satiric comment on his own words, or reveal a spirited man who impetuously offers to sacrifice his life. Micheal Ehrhardt plays General Burgoyne, a character whose ability to mock an absurd situation resembles Dick's; he is impressive in his dignity, biting in his wit. Even Pamela Harris's opening gesture foreshadows the careful details of her performance: she awakens, and consciously assumes her dour, self-righteous expression...
Sherry is the drink Pamela Frankau is offering here for those who take it-out of a cut-glass decanter, and perhaps a biscuit to go with it. The time is 1926, when England was just recovering from the general strike. Back from assorted boarding schools, the three Weston children are assembled at a seaside resort where Daddy's musical show, The Moonrakers, is definitely not raking in the cash. Mummy has been dead for years, and Daddy has contrived a living out of a shoestring and the old school tie (Eton) by writing and acting in summer revues...
...invoking the perpetually Edwardian world of the British upper-class family, where Nanny's always Nanny and nobody dares call her Nan, Pamela Frankau has performed what must by now be almost a ritually required act for all female British authors. Despite this, the Weston children's summer opens onto satisfyingly sunny uplands of the past. Predictably arch and fey and charming, the characters are nevertheless conveyed with a kind of loving concern that can make even a relative seem momentarily fascinating...