Word: warmly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...look for it --it will look for you. Going My Way is well-directed by Leo McCarey, and sure if Barry Fitzgerald isn't a dahrlin' little Uyrish priest. How the Grinch Stole Christmas will forever be the best TV Christmas special, with Boris Karloff's witty, warm and touching narration (I always cry). It's a Wonderful Life is not--to--be missed Capra (if you like Capra). I once saw something called Santa Claus Versus the Martians, which is at least novel. Different versions of A Christmas Carol--I still like the Mr. Magoo one the best. Gone...
...feel more at home here than anywhere," said the historian as he went up the hill to Monticello in the sunshine of Indian summer, his white hair ruffled by a warm breeze, facts and thoughts on "Mr. Jefferson" tumbling out in gentle accents...
...have promises to keep" has resonances that go far beyond the ice-glazed trees and horse-drawn carriage of this nostalgic volume. With a minimum of color and some gentle line drawings, Susan Jeffers gives her suite of illustrations a tactile quality: the driver's flannel seems as warm as cloth, and the swirling flakes bring a wintry chill and a welcome Frost to every page...
...since World War II, and particularly since the sexual revolution of the '60s, is The Amy Vanderbilt Complete Book of Etiquette, which has just been revised by former White House Social Secretary Letitia Baldrige. To prepare the cover story, Reporter-Researcher Georgia Harbison interviewed Baldrige and found her "warm, graceful and witty, with manners so good you don't notice them." The cover assignment, however, made Harbison so acutely aware of social minutiae that she was "shocked to find my teenage daughter didn't seem to know the difference between a salad fork and a dinner fork...
Betrayal is blessed in its stars. Massey's Robert speaks with a honed intelligence. The presence of Wilton's Emma would warm any flat, and as for Gambon's Jerry, he is a fond slave of love, though perhaps too passive to be a literary agent. Few playgoers can have left The Caretaker and The Homecoming without being viscerally shaken up. Quite a few may leave Betrayal, with its anesthetized passions, feeling vaguely shaken down...