Word: satyrs
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Indications were strong that nothing would happen. Vice-president Bob "Yawn" Crichton '50 gostured vaguely in the general direction of the Union, and murmured from behind his satyr-like visage, "Union, nice place to live, no quorum. But it's so far from Cronin's . . ." and he lapsed into customary hordrontalism...
Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad, 54-year-old philosopher and British Information-Pleaser, whose photogenic satyr-beard has long been familiar to British newspaper readers, displayed a little-known side of himself to the public. Occasion: a swimming party at a new youth hostel, which Philosopher Joad ceremoniously opened after an august arrival on horseback...
Courtney Fred Rogers, 26, is a tall, bookish, satyr-faced church organist who lost his family, one by one. His old grandmother, 76, died suddenly. His mother, apparently a suicide, was found one morning with chloroform-soaked cotton over her face. Finally, one night three years ago, his father, in a drunken stupor, was burned to death when the Los Angeles house caught fire...
...picture aerates a lot of its staleness with pace, surface wit, some crisp acting. As a henpecked satyr, Roland Young is still the alltime master of twiddle, the fatuous innuendo, the Britannic bleat. Fred MacMurray is an experienced cutup too. But some cinemaddicts may feel that Paulette Goddard is on the brink of overstatement when she exclaims: "Every time I see him I get weak in the knees...
...cries Devon when he tells her, "do you love me?" He does, right away. But it's no use. Tim leaves the cosmetic traffic for his laboratory, and Devon to a refugee satyr named Kurt who suffers from moral arthritis. Just as love is about to petrify into marriage, Devon discovers that Kurt is unfaithful...