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Only the air of the drawing room persists to the end; despite Edna Best's smooth playing, the charm of Jane fades out. Halfway along, she stops seeming faintly absurd and at once stops seeming alive. And she doesn't cut a wide enough swath, cause enough contretemps, shake up enough lives. In the end, the strong point of the play seems almost as much comment as character...
...Place in the Sun is the story of George Eastman (Montgomery Clift), a poor, ambitious boy who pursues the dream of a Horatio Alger hero to his own undoing. He hitchhikes to the distant city, where his rich uncle manufactures swim suits on the vast scale and cuts a swath in local society. There, from a shipping clerk's job in the factory, George catches tempting glimpses of a life of wealth, glamor and importance...
...loud note into their ears. Southern High expelled him within two months of graduation. As Mario tells the story, it was because he socked a teacher for slurring his Italian extraction. By then, Freddy weighed 250 Ibs., a blubbery fact that did not prevent him from cutting a wide swath among the local girls...
...Today, the widely publicized cancer campaigns [and] the overzealous, inexperienced routineers who man many clinics . . . who heedlessly and needlessly frighten patients, are rapidly increasing individual panic into a national stampede. Unchecked, this movement will leave in its wake a wide swath of hopelessly neurotic persons, of disabled and unnecessarily mutilated women...
...Manet grew older his realism began to seem acceptable, compared with the wilder menace of "impressionism." Manet refused to exhibit with the sunburned young landscapists, yet his defeats paved the way for their triumphs. Manet ended by cutting quite a swath in the Paris art world; the elegant prophet of painted light at last received an award he craved: the Cross of the Legion of Honor...