Word: warm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prove that the author is "modern," and that there is something strange about his story. As one reads, however, he finds that Heliczer's lower case letters and unusual punctuation serve a good purpose--they give the whole story an aspect of abstraction which is effectively balanced by the warm and realistic sketching of his characters, largely through details of their conversion. Heliczer's strange form, in fact, seems almost necessary to counter the realistic detail of the young pedant, his acid girl, and their combined sensuality. Heliczer's narrative style is light and lucid, and his humor does...
...said, "Thirty-seven Lbs. -do you think I'll need all this?" Replied the son, Jack Graham: "Yes, Mother, I'm 'sure you will need it." Mrs. King was going to Alaska to visit her married daughter, and she would need a lot of warm clothes...
...Julie. At 24, she was asked to play a girl of twelve, a poor little nobody-wants-it that has just burst angry out of the egg to stagger about on guessing feet, with one world in pieces behind it and the next not yet ready to offer its warm wing. The part was cruelly long and difficult, and the actress found herself braced between fierce tensions. The mood was Tarkington, but it was Proust as well. Frankie was a kind of kitchen Hamlet but a kind of failed Huck Finn besides, and almost more boy than girl...
...tried, Julie could not make her Joan as good as she wanted it to be -or, indeed, as good as most of the critics said it was. It said nothing particularly new about human life; but it did say new and vital things about Julie Harris and about her warm young...
...game activity among the fans at both contests is much the same. The stadium fills long before game time. Many fans bring large quantities of blankets, warm clothes, and warming liquids. But the roars that follow the first appearance of the Middy and Cadet squads are much louder and more fervent than those produced by the first view of the Crimson and Eli elevens...