Word: sweetheart
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...June Allyson, who has recently provided the ball-and-chain for almost every picture she appears in) is presented in turn as a relentless good sport who makes her home in one plywood horror after another, spends half her time in heart-rending goodbyes, and keeps muttering sub-hysterically, "Sweetheart, don't worry about...
...sacrificing his own son to appease the sea god Poseidon, and decides to spirit him away. But the young man doubles Poseidon's wrath by slaying one of his sea monsters, and Idomeneo realizes that he must go ahead with the sacrifice. When the boy's faithful sweetheart Ilia insists on dying with him, the god relents, and the ending is happy. After the two-hour performance, the audience applauded for 15 solid minutes. Backstage, people swarmed to get a glimpse of the evening's heroine, Metropolitan Opera Soprano Eleanor Steber, who sang Ilia. The Greeks...
...paradox that he who loses his life shall find it. Seventeen and in love, Kim knocks around the Baltic as an apprentice on a three-masted schooner, fighting for peace within, while World War II rages around him. Soon this unschooled lad, who can write so tenderly to his sweetheart ("May you sleep as sweetly as a water lily on a pond"), is looking into the hearts of others-the cough-racked Finnish soldier riding a blacked-out bus near the front, the old Danish widow clinging to life by keeping a dried-up Christmas tree by her bedside...
...reports after being tortured. "The cleansing of the spirit makes you see the world from a new level way above what is known as pain or fear." Most affecting of all the letters his mother has collected in this book is the one Kim wrote his sweetheart just before the Nazis executed him in April 1945. Kim, then 21, said: "Promise me-this you owe to everything I have lived for-that never will the thought of me come between you and Life." The hardbought truths of Kim's goodbye are valid for all the world's bereaved...
...history, etched in the common memories of a whole generation of Britons who fought in World War II. Alan discovers that Jessie Proctor was an alias assumed by Janet Prentice, a World War II WREN in Navy Ordnance whom he had once met as his younger brother's sweetheart. As past becomes present in Alan's probings, the war gives Janet her first whiff of life, and then steadily chokes it out of her. Both the men Janet cares for-Alan's brother and her father-are killed. Just before Dday, Janet mans...