Word: purees
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...social snobbishness of the man (Carl Benton Reid) who was both its chief patron and the father of the girl (Ann Blyth) he loved. It is a story full of the kind of quaint dialect which, designed to sound like a literal English translation of Italian, sounds only like pure Ruritanian...
...atom bomb (which Shaw thought would not be used), but by an improved version of an old-fashioned poison gas. As Shaw saw it, men will go onward & upward until they learn how to live on air, to get the same sensual pleasure from the pursuit of pure knowledge which their gross fathers got from the pursuit of other things, and finally to take leave of their bodies, becoming a species of intellectual angels. Then, a new race will develop, remarkably like the old, all set to start the whole business over again...
...witted as it is snail-paced. At the final curtain it is, dramatically, still wading out toward where it is deep enough to swim. The play pins all its laughs on how visible ghosts are, instead of how mischievous. Actually, the Gramercy Ghost is the soul of sedateness-a pure Caspar Milqueghost-a fatal error in a play where the flesh & blood set seems anything...
Santayana passes in review all his favorite ideas-materialism, naturalism, humanism, relativism. Then he dismisses each of them by saying that "chaos is perhaps at the bottom of everything." This verdict does not land Santayana in the camp of the simon-pure pessimists. Nature, he insists, does trace out repetitive patterns of order, and for Naturalist Santayana the life of mankind is a problem in horticulture...
...seems to be onstage when most of the delightful putting much gusto into her acting as the roaring girl, she still manages to extract a good deal of humor from her material. It is not Restoration wit that gets the laughs when she is on; it is Nancy Walker, pure and simple. She wipes her nose with her sleeve and makes love to a cello with a savage determination that is generally both frightening and funny...