Word: soul
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forbids U.S. entry to any alien who was ever a member of a totalitarian party. Greene's difficulty: during his Oxford days in the early '20s, he joined the Communist Party "as a prank," paid dues for a month before he dropped out, later to become a soul-searching Roman Catholic. In Washington, the State Department turned the Greene case over to the Justice Department, which has authority to allow exceptions in unusual cases...
...rather earnest and demure woman offstage, Dorothy, 29, is modest about her talents. "I have a nice voice and it's pleasing. It's got a lot of soul in it. Besides, people just seem to like to look...
...weak in the exchequer-once during his reign the funds in the national treasury dwindled to one pound, two shillings and tenpence-and lowborn Nelly was cheaper to keep than dames of high degree. She was generally a sight less meddlesome. "All matters of state with her soul she does hate," the broadside ran, "and leaves to the politic bitches." And not least: "When he was dumpish, still would she be jocund / And chuck the royal chin of Charles the Second...
Back to Work. He firmly believes that the election of '32 was a greater catastrophe than the crash of '29. "We put into office as our Chief Executive a Pied Piper ... a gifted madman." If Jeff confuses the state of the nation with the state of his soul, it is because Author Jonas has failed to give him one. Swinging through the jungle of his mind on one rotting cliche after another, Jefferson Selleck finally decides that "courage to keep the whole show running" is the only value he knows much about...
...anything to reproach about the picture, it is that the author appears to "stack the cards" in some of his situations to derive the greatest possible effect. But after all, who is to say that it might not have happened that way? Mr. Rattigan has exposed a man's soul with relentless probing, but at the same time with extreme delicacy, and that is about all one can ask of any playwright...