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...Fortunately it's not as trite as all that, for Wendy Hiller portrays Joan Webster, the calculating wonan, with a poise and effectiveness that makes much out of not much of anything. Roger Livesey and the supporting east also contribute an occasional worthwhile moment and, with the assistance of Scottish folk dances and Gaclic singing, the picture becomes quite enjoyable...
Grenadine's father was believed to be "the bastard son of an English King who had despoiled a Scottish maid between the act of shooting grouse and angling for landlocked salmon." Grenadine, herself part Negro with Creole trimmings, grows up with a gorilla for a playmate; her first word, at seven months, is "man." She marries the governor of Havana, then becomes a slave trader, millionaire racehorse owner, inventor of the cigaret and, after the first 100 pages, dull to read about. Merely exaggerating the absurd is no sure way to hilarity; satire must make its own kind...
Brigadoon. Imaginative musical about an odd Scottish village (TIME, March...
When he was about 18, Lewis bought a book called Phantasies, by George Macdonald, a Scottish Presbyterian best known for his Princess & Curdie and other children's fairy tales. In the introduction to his recent anthology of Macdonald's work (TIME, June 2), Lewis confesses the importance of that day's purchase: "I had already been waist-deep in Romanticism; and likely enough, at any moment, to flounder into its darker and more evil forms, slithering down the steep descent that leads from the love of strangeness to that of eccentricity and thence to that of perversity...
Alexander Neill's father was a strict Scottish schoolmaster, who used to spank his children rather repetitiously. Young Neill developed a fear of his father that haunted him until early manhood. Years later, when he began studying child psychology, he decided to found a school of his own, to produce children who would go through life free from fear and who would never need to be psychoanalyzed. Last week, by special invitation, Headmaster Neill, 64, was in the U.S. to give a series of lectures to interested educators and parents on the psychological and educational theories of Alexander Neill...