Word: seldom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...than Blanche DuBois' "vulnerability." Unfortunately, this thesis does not play successfully throughout, and the result is an energetic but uneven production. "The total horror of Blanche's affliction" may be, as Mr. Rabb claims, "her incapability of surviving," but perhaps this statement explains why his production never bores but seldom moves one. The fall of Blanche DuBois should certainly evoke a greater reaction than horror. Otherwise she becomes grotesque, and her viewers cannot take her seriously. This was definitely the case Tuesday evening; and, as a result, some of Blanche's most lyric moments drew laughter from the audience...
Warmly Welcomed. In six weeks the process produced seven articles under the Harriman byline; e.g., on Yalta ("Seldom, I am told, has an American been more warmly welcomed"), on peace ("I have been received everywhere as an American who symbolizes our wartime alliance"), and Soviet penal reform (his hosts showed him only their showpiece prison outside Moscow...
...decade since he became Chancellor of West Germany, oaken-faced Konrad Adenauer has acquired in the minds of his countrymen the stature of a stern father-awe-inspiring, sometimes overrigid, the living symbol of righteous and unshakable purpose. But, though the public has seldom seen it, there is an obverse side to Adenauer's character: a nagging, emotional mistrustfulness that can convert him in the blink of an eye to a man of angry impulse. Last week Konrad Adenauer, 83, gave full rein to his impulsiveness and by doing so flawed an unsurpassed international reputation for rock-like consistency...
MERCY FOR THIS MOTHER! cried London's Daily Sketch. Seldom, said Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard, has there been a more striking example of "how the law, when administered with insufficient humanity, can not only condone injustice but actively inflict it." Seldom, either, had Britain as a whole been more concerned over the strange workings of some of its quainter laws...
...Japanese moviemakers, is a Dickensian diatribe against prostitution. At the time the movie was released, Japan had some 500,000 "flowery-willowy" girls, and the picture is said to have swayed millions to support the stop-prostitution bill that was passed in 1956. In the U.S., where prostitution has seldom been seriously discussed on the screen, audiences will no doubt be stunned by the film's unblinking realism. But they will probably not be startled by the scriptwriter's discovery that every whore has a heart of gold...