Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...staggers away after Act One, the perceptive theatregoer notices that the next scene is "Later that night," and takes heart. However, at 4 in the morning, John feels compelled to tell the truth about himself, while the audience suffers, before he and Katherine succumb to the inevitable...
...begin to learn again." They sounded to Gene like television announcers, but he decided that it would be fun, occasionally, to go to classes. He particularly liked to pretend that the students were dominoes when, in unison, their heads and hands toppled down to inscribe the lecturer's latest truth...
...unbeatable foe, and never to stop dreaming or fighting-this is man's privilege and the only life worth living." Viewers and critics inclined to snicker at such idealism missed the point of a fine TV drama whose central theme was man's eternal search for truth...
...roles of Cervantes and Don Quixote were played by Lee J. Cobb, 47, an excellent performer whose own search for truth has sometimes been confused. A would-be actor since his New York City College days, Cobb sold radios before he got into the old Group Theater, was on his way up, and starred memorably in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, before he was named in a congressional investigation as a former Communist. Cobb publicly denounced Communism, testified about other Red actors, and was given a meaty part in On the Waterfront by Elia Kazan...
...Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).* Jolted by the death of his only son during a prep-school field trip accident, a widower harangues his son's teacher until he finds one of the boy's poems and learns the bitter truth about himself. The Last Autumn stars Pat Hingle and Alexis Smith...