Word: porter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proposal to abolish the "dry" cleaning corps of the student porter system has failed decisively to pass the Committee on Houses. As opposed to "wet" cleaners, who disinfect the bathrooms, the "drys" vacuum each room once a week...
Refusing to comment on the effectiveness of the present porter system, Burke stated that his office would readily comply with any decision of the Masters. He said also that students would undoubtedly benefit from "learning to keep their own nests clean...
...Thomas Eakins, by Fairfield Porter, views the greatest of American masters through a reducing glass, calls him "outside of his time, because his intuition was hindsight," and yet is a consistently brilliant and fascinating offbeat analysis...
Otherwise, though the action has been sedulously (and sometimes clumsily) chopped up into various locales, the film is faithful to the spirit of its original. It is still about the social, marital, and personal maladjustment of a "working-class intellectual," a university-educated sweet-stall operator named Jimmy Porter. In his frequent periods of depression, Jimmy still has recourse to blowing his Dixieland trumpet, and when feeling good he still composes pseudo-music hall songs combining sex and sociology, one of which is entitled "Don't Be Afraid to Sleep with Your Sweetheart Just Because She's Better Than...
Even the faults of the movie are largely those of the play. Mr. Osborne believes, and tells us, that the difficulties in the Porter marriage are due to Alison's shortcomings as well as Jimmy's, but this is never embodied dramatically: she appears as a worn, long-suffering patsy for Jimmy's tirades, with no vices or bitcheries to balance his, and no problems except Jimmy. In their brief moments of loving communion, Mr. and Mrs. Porter like to pretend that he is a jolly super bear and she a bushy-tailed squirrel--an odd and embarrassing touch...