Word: suggestive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...psychiatrist says conscience is often a doubtful asset, the clergyman ought to know what is meant and commend it, even though he may suggest sharpening up conscience so as not to imply non-concern for ethics. If a clergyman says men must recognize their sinfulness before salvation is possible, the psychiatrist ought to know what this means, even though cautioning against identification of the fact of sin with a sense of guilt...
That is enough of Johnny Belinda to suggest that it is pretty turgid stuff. Also indicative of its savor is the name of Belinda's father: Black McDonald. Yet the picture has many winning qualities. Jane Wyman plays the mute with sweetness and considerable skill. Mr. Ayres is modest and sympathetic. Mr. Bickford and Miss Moorehead do solid jobs of character acting. Stephen (formerly Horace) McNally is a vigorous personality and also a very good actor. In some stretches the picture is just well-sliced ham, but in others it is so good that it hardly seems possible...
...birthday, Feb. 12, should be a holiday† in the soft-coal fields. They learned that John L. had not paid his $30,000 contempt fines out of his own pocket but out of the union's till, and voted retroactive approval of that. John had merely to suggest that the U.M.W.'s $13 million bankroll ought to be bolstered so that he could have more "available funds in a crisis." With audible grumbles, the delegates voted to boost their dues from an average $2 to $4 a month. But gratefully, they raised the Champ's salary...
Margaret Phillips' role (which Playwright Williams originally wrote with Katharine Cornell in mind) is only her fourth on Broadway, but it marks the sort of personal triumph that has attended Williams' other heroines (Laurette Taylor in Menagerie, Jessica Tandy in Streetcar). Although her skill and her accent suggest an apprenticeship on the English stage, 15-year-old Maggie knew nothing about acting when she came to the U.S. in 1939 on a visit from her native Cwmgwrach (pronounced Coom-grawk), Wales...
...Crowninshield saga was bound to suggest a novel to somebody, some day. The Running of the Tide, by Esther Forbes (Book-of-the-Month for October and winner of one of the 1947 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer $150,000 novel contests...