Word: unfamiliarity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Perelman picks up business where he left off with Look Who's Talking (TIME, Aug. 12, 1940). One passage should suffice to give traffic signals to such readers as remain unfamiliar with Perelman's work. The passage was inspired by a notice to the effect that moving pictures would be used for department-store advertising. The title is Kitchenware, Notions, Lights, Action, Camera...
...confirming his fear that 1946 was completely unfamiliar with the ivy-covered folklore of the 300-years-old institution, he swung on his Freshman room-mate accusingly. "Did you ever liear of the old letter-carrier who used to climb across the roof from one entry of Matthews to the other as a short-cut to save steps?" he demanded. Upon the expected "no" Vag settled back and sighed unhappily...
...Douglas Southall Freeman's massively academic Lee's Lieutenants ($5), first of a projected three-volume study of the men who fought the battles of the South's lost cause. Most amusing was Hesketh Pearson's G.B.S. A Full Length Portrait ($3.50), which recorded many unfamiliar details of George Bernard Shaw's childhood and lovelife. Others were Esther Forbes's conscientious, overlong Paul Revere and the World He Lived In ($3.75); Hugh 1'Anson Fausset's erratic but illuminating Walt Whitman ($3); Poetess Muriel Rukeyser's fervent celebration of the famously...
Claude Rains's brainside manner may well fill noncinematic neuropaths with a profound sense of insecurity. As Charlotte, Bette Davis is recognizably neurasthenic. Little Janis Wilson deserves special handling after her tender debut as Tina. By using a simple unfamiliar formula the Austrian newcomer, Paul Henreid (Night Train), makes himself one of Hollywood's likeliest leading men. His formula: When he is in a tough emotional spot he acts like a kind and morally responsible human being...
...play was imperfectly written and directed. But the important point if that the audience was incapable of fulfilling the basic demand of the play, even had it been well done. Technical advances are not yet great enough to perform the tree trick with sufficient realism. It was an unfamiliar idea, an impossible idea. Therefore they could not imagine it, even for one evening. The play failed because the audience failed...