Word: portrayals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Participants in a psychodrama group stand around the stage before each session, chatting with Enneis and among themselves to decide who shall be the first "star" and what aspects of life to portray. After the-y have attended a couple of sessions, they are usually surprisingly willing to go onstage and act out husband-and-wife fights or mother-and-daughter quarrels. Among recent patients was Joe, 24, who had felt unwanted and frustrated at home with an ineffective father and a hostile, aggressive, dominant mother. With another patient acting the part of his mother, Joe learned to express some...
...newsmen soon after his TV fiasco to prove that his thunderous throat had lost none of its volume, was signed by Warner Bros, to star in the screen version of James M. Cain's novel Serenade. In the film, to be shot early next year, Mario will portray an opera star whose voice suddenly deserts him, then briefly returns to him in Mexico as he leads a more manly life...
Father McDonnell does not object to giving angels human bodies, or even wings. "But we do object to the portrayal of angels as harmless, effeminate creatures bored with a purposeless existence. We object to their portrayal as ethereal glamor queens looking pleasantly ineffectual. Though there are no masculine or feminine angels . . . (there can be distinction of sexes only where there are bodies), yet it is not correct to portray angels as women. God has revealed the angels to us in the masculine: Raphael, Michael, Gabriel. By their nature the angels are next to God. They are powerful beings. The German...
...acting in The Knife is almost as good as the excellent vehicle. Although Patricia Leatham is a trifle stiff as the mother, Hal Scott is really moving in the difficult role of the boy. Given the short frame work of a one-acter, Scott manages to portray a sensitive boy with the touches of voice and face that mark a subtle actor. It is to his credit, as well as Robinson's, that it is never necessary for the boy to make and obvious announcements his sensitivity. As the evil influence in the boy's life, John Fenn...
Thirty-five-year-old Charlie Reader is not just the usual bachelor, however; he is part of what the authors portray as a special Manhattan breed-men besieged in their own apartments by an endless stream of attractive, obliging, gift-bearing women who are also more than happy to cook or clean house for monsieur. In the face of such good fortune, Charlie (well-played by Ronny Graham) has not the slightest desire to marry...