Word: posed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More even than it suffers from being dieted to fit the stage, Point of No Return is hurt by a want of the book's wry irony, a failure to pose the dilemma that agitates Marquand himself quite as much as any other U.S. male. The play does not sufficiently cut two ways because Charles never seems sufficiently pulled two ways, never really seems involved in a fight against a job, only in a fierce struggle for one. And -a touch not in the book-if Charles's turndown of a fancy country-club bid is meant...
Radcliffe's stringent control over Annex news and individual publicity ended yesterday with an announcement by President Jordan that student correspondents would no longer have to clear stories through the Publicity Office. Students may also grant outside interviews and pose for pictures without the News Office's permission, heretofore required...
...Hollywood to perform. Ironically, Scripter-Director Richard Brooks is the author of a current novel (The Producer) in which a moviemaker grapples with a front-office demand for an ending that wrenches the hero out of character. Brooks's own movie is a stock item too artificial to pose this issue as a problem of integrity, but by wrenching Granger out of character for a happy ending, he burdens The Light Touch with its heaviest going...
...pose. With his fine and nimble mind, he copped enough of life's prizes to satisfy half a dozen ordinary men. As a journalist, he tossed off articles lively as hand grenades. As history professor at Harvard (1870-77), he launched the first graduate studies in history in the U.S. As a practicing historian, he wrote a classic, nine-volume study of the Jefferson-Madison administration. He hobnobbed with the great, picked every first-rate brain of the Victorian era, traveled from the South Seas to the Arctic Circle, and finally totted up the findings of a lifetime...
...daughter Glennalee, 17, eloped with her young highschool sweetheart George Pontikes, the son of an immigrant Greek cobbler, Millionaire Glenn McCarthy flew into the classic fatherly rage. By last week, however, time and normal events had softened the blow, and photographers caught the terrible-tempered oilman in the classic pose of a new grandfather. Glennalee had presented him with his first granddaughter. Her name: Glennalee McCarthy Pontikes...