Word: soulless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Julie Harris as Nora in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House (NBC). In the semi-modern classic that for years was regarded as a ringing plea for woman's emancipation, she was superb as the child-wife who is treated as a mindless, soulless plaything by a priggish husband (Christopher Plummer). But while Actress Harris-kittenish, hectically gay and finally rebellious-could break out of Nora's plush Victorian prison, she could not wholly shake off the stilted language and obtrusive 19th century stagecraft which Adaptor James Costigan took over from Ibsen...
...students still rush out to do political battle as in British times (antiCommunist university demonstrators led the street scuffling in Kerala last week-see FOREIGN NEWS), much of their agitation is for petty, personal aims (easier exams, special movie admission rates), and seems basically a frustrated reaction to the soulless character of their studies and the futility of their future...
Program & Plans. Last week the three men sat together at Confraternidad's first public meeting. Their program, to be spread through radio, press, lectures, books: i) "mold a collective soul through the union and understanding of all believers," 2) "form a common front against soulless forces which destroy the dignity of man," and 3) "promote the spiritual significance of democracy...
...Soul of a Soulless City," Painter C. R. W. Nevinson called it -predeceased McNulty by a few months. John McNulty himself would never have gone on in Nevinson's excitable fashion about a segment of New York's rapid-transit system, but in a subtle, simple way -by drinking, thinking and writing on the avenue-he made the caption come true. This excellent selection of his stories, articles and miscellaneous pieces proves that a man can find wisdom as well as booze in a gin mill...
...Soulless Big Business, one of TV's favorite whipping boys, took another drubbing last week on Kraft TV Theater. In a playlet called Success, Actor Kent Smith limned a clean, incisive portrait of an able executive who proves, if nothing else, that the boss is not always right. With uncommon cunning, Executive Smith is squeezed out of the big corporative setup and eased into the humiliating role of a shoe salesman at I. Miller. In injured tones, his social-minded wife (played by Andy Hardy's old valentine, Ann Rutherford) reminds him: "We haven't even paid...