Word: thanklessness
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...well-cast play, Dennis King as Disraeli is debonair and mellifluent, a prince of players who conveys the facility of the successful novelist as well as the astuteness of the statesman. James Cossins' Gladstone is a subtle creation, the portrait of an un compromising man doing an honest, thankless job for a sovereign who can not abide him. But the play belongs to Miss Tutin. In the final act, without benefit of makeup sorcery, she and Victoria edge into old age. The fatigue of existence enters her voice, slows her step, dims her eyes like a patina...
...Industries Ltd. For that, however, it received criticism as well as praise, especially from A.E.I., which resisted G.E.C.'s takeover attempts until the end. Dear Independence. Grierson's successor in the post of managing director, Charles Villiers, 54, also a merchant banker, has taken on the largely thankless task of assuaging businessmen's fears about excessive government intervention in industry, even while stepping up the I.R.C.'s activities. Insisting that the I.R.C., despite its government ties, operates with a virtually free hand, Villiers says that "such independence is very dear to us. It means that industrialists...
...bathroom to the altar. He threatens, he cajoles, he implores. He nearly breaks his arm ramming the door. He rends his cutaway till it looks like sackcloth and he looks like ashes. Scott's countenance of epic frustration is phenomenally funny: a middle-aged Lear confronted with a thankless offspring. The evening's master treat, a carnival of sight-and-sound gags, this skit shows how Simon and Nichols can take a sit uation no bigger than a snowball and dislodge an avalanche of hilarity...
...result of an earlier treatise on price control, Galbraith found himself Assistant Administrator of the Office of Price Administration?and price control czar of the entire country, with a staff that swiftly swelled from ten people to 16,000. It was a thankless, nearly impossible job, complicated by the guidelines laid down in his own treatise, which proved in practice to be "inapplicable in every detail." He quickly dumped it. In 1943, having irritated just about everyone by his zealous performance, he was dumped himself. A year on FORTUNE followed?he credits Henry Luce with teaching him to write?...
...thankless roles, Tracy and Hepburn cannot be faulted, nor appreciated. Hepburn gets the worse end of the deal, called on almost constantly to cast a sympathetic, tear-filled glance at Tracy. Poitier, for whom this was supposed to be a break away from type-casting, suffers as usual from the vacuous goodness of his character; Miss Houghton suffers from the inevitable comparison with Hepburn, who has aged more excitingly than any actress alive, and at 60 maintains a peerless presence...