Word: passional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Joan Fontaine's 1948 bid for the Academy Award, "Letter From An Unknown Woman," teeters perilously close to the brink of complete bathos for the better part of two hours, but it never quite falls in. Set in the Vienna of 1900, it concerns the lifelong passion of a pretty girl for a rather stupid young composer, played woodenly by Louis Jourdan. Miss Fontaine gazes lovingly at Jourdan while she is a child, and when she has grown up, runs away from home for a romantic one-night spree with him. He subsequently takes a trip, and after...
Needles in a Haystack. Last week, sitting in his Princeton, N.J. office, Dr. George Horace Gallup riffled contentedly through the answers. A big, friendly, teddybear of a man with a passion for facts & figures, Pollster Gallup has been finding needles in the U.S. haystack for the past twelve years. Other pollsters, like Elmo Roper and Archibald Crossley, have been doing it just as long. But George Gallup's four-a-week releases to 126 U.S. newspapers have made the "Gallup Poll" a household word and Gallup the Babe Ruth of the polling profession...
...From Hamlet's famous advice to the players: ". . . Do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and (as I may say) whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness...
...Campaign. Taylor's passion for telling people about the works of free enterprise has made him the West Coast's prickliest burr in the pants of traditionalist businessmen. Los Angeles-born, he graduated from the University of California (1922) and went to work for an iron company which was later merged into Consolidated Steel Corp. In 1934, when Taylor became Consolidated's president, the company was in the red. He overhauled operations, cleaned out the deadwood and put Consolidated into the black. In 1938, when Los Angeles Union Oil, oldest and second largest West Coast oil company...
...good many of Ibsen's devices of gradual disclosure; he has developed a rather mannered, deeply native style of dialogue which is well suited to the stage but does not come sharply to life on the screen; he has told his story with compassion as well as passion. The picture is scarcely more than a photographed play, but it is unusually well acted-notably by Robinson, Lancaster and Christians. It is earnest, it is on the side of the angels, and it is not without genuine dramatic vitality. Yet it is in no way deeply disturbing, or satisfying. Like...