Word: sophisticatee
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Political Sophisticate. But intense, Hungarian-born Anna Rosenberg is on her way as a master politician. She began politicking at 17 at Wadleigh High, a girls' school where she managed to head up-and off-a strictly masculine rebellion against compulsory military training for high-school students. But she...
This Happy Breed, a cavalcade of lower middle class life in a London suburb between two wars, is an attempted salute to the common man. Extending from 1919 to 1939, it tells the sometimes drab story of the durable Gibbons family, their births, marriages, deaths, their small joys and fair...
Carl Hasselmann and his sister Ellie, provincial, supersensitive Americans, dwell in the uneasy revulsions of a sort of spiritual incest. They represent, respectively, the frigid, inhumane predicament of mind-without-spirit and the equally suicidal predicament of spirit-without-mind. Carl's mental drive stretches him flat on the...
Quinette is a half-educated man of action. Vorge is a frantic would-be sophisticate, a man of thought. Yet their pathology is the same. Vorge has only to hear of Quinette in connection with a woman's mysterious disappearance to assume (on no grounds) his guilt. He seeks...
I TAKE THIS WOMAN: And who wouldn't? Despite frequent scenes in which Hedy Lamarr seems about to be tied to the railroad tracks, this particular treatment of the eternal "eternal triangle" provides fair entertainment. Spencer Tracy, shuttling from a steaming jungle to an expensive night club, is as painfully...