Word: pleasant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...overall impression reminds one of "Life With Father," but there's a certain very big something that isn't there. While the capable performers are portraying their cleverly constructed roles, matters are pleasant. But in between, the emptiness of the whole thing stands out, and the final reaction is a flat neutrality. The comedy is first-rate, the play merely good...
What is his measure? He is modest, honest, healthy, simple, kindly, straightforward, with a pleasant sense of humor, the average level of Congressional intelligence-which is higher than U.S. voters often think. His defects are lacks: he is obviously not a man whose nobility of purpose, splendid idealism or farsighted vision of the American destiny has ever stirred or could ever stir the country. He is not known as the sponsor of any legislation of importance, let alone of any profound or seriously progressive measures; he has never notably participated in debate on taxes or economic measures...
...lieutenant and air observer, he had run two small Ohio papers, finally became managing editor of his father's Akron Beacon-Journal. But until his father died in 1933, no one in Akron noticed much about Cornell-trained Jack Knight except that he was a pleasant fellow with a flair for good clothes and winning at golf. His father's death left the Beacon-Journal with a load of depression debt. Akron gossiped: "This will be the end of the Beacon; Jack doesn't know how to settle down and work...
...pure delight. If you've ever wondered whether Fay could do anything well but those wry and funny commentaries on song lyrics, here's your answer. Elwood is a gentle, vague soul who says he tried being smart for forty years and then took a crack at being pleasant, and he advises pleasant. Fay achieves a casual distinction that you would not be likely to expect from a vaudevillian...
...shot of Formula X to cure what supposedly ails him, the taxi driver who has brought the Dowds to the institution comes in for his money. Vita and Myrtle find they're fresh out, so they stop the injection and tell Elwood to pay the man. Elwood in his pleasant and disarming way discusses life with the cab driver, invites him over to the house for dinner, and makes the duped young fellow forget all about the $2.75. But the cabbie likes Elwood, and so does everyone else...