Word: remindful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sometimes I get sore at TIME for passing up a suggested story or condensing my long account to a few lines. Then I remind myself that TIME culls the world for the news while I just cull Cuba. And I see in the final product the tempering effect of the editor who isn't swept too far one way or the other by being too close to the scene...
...Street' just as it has since the birth of American freedom." His early crusade for church unity in Fairfield now seems to him "as unimportant as it was impractical." Protestantism's very multiplicity he now considers its strength. As Doc Reynolds once told him: "Protestantism ought to remind a man of spring . . . New life beginning to move. New cells splitting up . . . Did you ever think of Protestantism like that? . . . The multiplication of cells is one of the manifestations of an inherent vital force...
...which was entitled Manservant and Maidservant in England) is perhaps Author Compton-Burnett's finest novel. Its principal character, Family-Head Horace Lamb, is a typical Compton-Burnett tyrant-one who believes that he has sacrificed his whole life to his family and never misses a chance to remind them of the fact. He has married his wife, Charlotte, for her money, "hoping to serve his impoverished estate, and she had married him for love, hoping to fulfil herself. The love had gone and the money remained, so that the advantage lay with Horace, if he could have taken...
...marries a rich nobleman, and then bumps into Jourdan at the opera. Although the interim is supposed to be nine years, neither Miss Fontaine nor Jourdan have changed at all, so the audience is just as surprised as the heroine that he doesn't remember her. She tries to remind him but he remains buffaloed. Soon thereafter the son dies and, as she feels herself dying too, she pens him a long, long letter...
...that they can go unnoticed as such. However, the superb comedy antics of Frank Cellier as the befuddled lover-fisherman, and that of Edward Rigby as the village tosspot, deserve singling out for special praise. There is also a spirited young miss named Barbara White, whose freshness and beauty remind us of an old ideal we once had, oh, many years ago. After the Dickens movie, "Quiet Weekend," with its rather ordinary people, should be as welcome as the flowers that bloom in the spring, and just as worthy of notice--not for relief, but for acquaintance...