Word: seeming
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like a purple spotlight, the plot is trained remorselessly on the sins and sufferings of a beautiful Irish aristocrat (Miss Bergman). Besides being a great lady, she is also a fratricide, a moral coward and a tosspot. Ingrid is supposed to make this heroine seem an appealing damsel in distress. The appeal, despite beautiful efforts, remains largely potential. The distress comes through without relief, mostly in long, pale-lipped monologues and maudlin confessions...
...been looking to Satchmo' to stifle the moans and yelps of the musical fringe that is bop; but the fright passed as Armstrong stuck to his two-beat last and gave no ground to the banana-split-and-beret coterie that haunts the "bars" in bop halls. It would seem that there are still people who prefer the easy phrases of Dixieland to the jolts and bumps of the new form...
Besides cheery sex gags, Blackouts offers some highly special specialties-boy pianists, aged chorines and one-legged hoofers. There are also oldtimers like Composer Shelton (Some of These Days) Brooks and Guitarist Nick (Tip Toe Through the Tulips) Lucas; but they don't make things seem like old times. New, and nice to look at, is blonde Pat Williams, as the show's leading lady. Blackouts has its remarkable turns -a female contortionist, a set of trained lovebirds; but in the great days of vaudeville, they would merely have opened the show...
...Brigadier asks, "a Greek army that reads the Statesman and Nation?"). But the major slowly suppresses his disapproval, just as he suppresses his feeling for Nitsa, the Greek girl who has worked beside him in the underground. As the civil war bleeds Greece, Walker's ife begins to seem flat and inadequate. In Author Weller's scheme, he represents decency, and mere decency is not enough for coping with civil...
...drama of Merton's inner conflict, conversion and renunciation, has sold more than 270,000 copies and is still selling. It is not likely that Waters of Siloe will hit any such figure, but Merton has put together a brief, lively history of an order that U.S. readers seem curious to hear about...