Word: shelleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thing, "many readers today are unfamiliar with that part of history which consists of the names and legends of classical mythology, so largely employed in the poems of Milton, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson and Matthew Arnold. This ignorance does not at all impede the appreciation of music or of painting. But a reader who has no conception of ancient Hellas and its mythology and no loving imagination of pastoral life must lose some at least of the enchantment of Keats's Ode to Mala...
...when it gives Frankie the stage or when it sticks closest to his own story, as in a documentary-like scene of a teen-age audience swooning and squealing at Manhattan's Paramount Theater. But the pleasure drains away in a trite love story involving a nightclub singer (Shelley Winters), and a silly plot leading to a gun battle between Frankie and a gangster in an empty baseball park at night...
...conversations are going at once, none of them coming across very distinctly. In Producer-Writer Nunnally Johnson's adaptation of an I.A.R. Wylie story, the stranger is an attorney (Gary Merrill) who is running out on his unfaithful wife. On a plane trip, he meets a brassy stripteaser (Shelley Winters) with a heart of gold and mother-in-law trouble, a moody medico (Michael Rennie) who is morally sick over a past misdeed, and a loudmouthed traveling salesman (Keenan Wynn). When the plane crashes, the attorney is the only one of the quartet who survives. In the process...
...threw Britain's weight on the side of the former enemy, France. Britons blamed Castlereagh for the economic distress following the Napoleonic wars, the neglected veterans of Waterloo and the martyrs of Peterloo (hundreds of hungry English weavers shot down by the militia for protesting their working conditions). Shelley wrote: "I Met Murder on the way-He had a Mask like Castlereagh." In 1822, in a fit of depression, Castlereagh slit his throat with a penknife...
...Place in the Sun. Director George Stevens' adaptation of Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy; with Montgomery Clift, Shelley Winters, Elizabeth Taylor (TIME, Sept...