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Shades of Uriah Heep. Not that it is all Willis Wayde's fault. When he first arrives at Clyde, Mass, from Denver, he is a likable youngster. But he is quickly made to feel that he and his parents are nomads from the great American desert west of Boston. His father, a brilliant, roving engineer, works at the Harcourt Mill. The Harcourts are a fine old feudal Yankee clan, and they soon inspire young Willis with the desire to be something he is not. He imitates their manners and their games, even buys (secondhand) their kind of clothes...
Nothing has aroused me quite as much as Eamon McDonough's letter in TIME, Aug. 18, to the effect that with a choice between "Uriah Heep" Stevenson and "Tin Soldier" Ike, he will stay away from the polls on election day and pray for the future of the country . . . Mr. McDonough should go to church, as he suggests, and pray for himself or else go behind the Iron Curtain where he could have only one choice...
...country is faced with a choice between Uriah Keep ("I am aware that I am the 'umblest person going") and the Constant Tin Soldier ("He did not think it right to shout in uniform"). For myself, on election day I shall go not to the election booth but to the church pew and pray for the future of the country...
...Charles Dickens should not have used the name Uriah for Uriah Heep," a sniveling hypocrite." because the biblical Uriah was "one of the bravest and one of the best soldiers...
...script is more notable for words than action, and its pretensions to serious drama are undermined by a plot that never quite overcomes its resemblance to boudoir farce. Uriah the Hittite (Kieron Moore), whom David cheats first of his wife and then of his life, may well be the most gullible cuckold in literature; even played straight, the character seems like a fugitive from a Molière comedy...