Word: warmth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...destroy him. Perhaps this is not his fault, for Sartre has created a John Proctor who is more of a symbol than a tragic hero. At any rate, acting laurels must go to Simone Signoret, who plays Proctor's wife with a combination of puritan pigheadedness and feminine warmth that makes her the only completely convincing character in the film. Director Rouleau's portrayal of Deputy Governor Danforth, the prosecutor, is so blunt that even in his moments of doubt about the justice of his own proceedings, he fails to evoke any sympathy...
...straight general elections without coalition support, but there was little doubt that Macmillan, a master of political maneuver, had chosen the top psychological moment. The Tories' Suez fiasco and its architect, Sir Anthony Eden, were fading into oblivion; the Macmillan government was basking in the new Anglo-American warmth generated by President Eisenhower's triumphal tour. Even the Queen's prospective baby and the sensationally brilliant summer seemed to count in the government's favor. Macmillan, complained Labor Party Chairman Barbara Castle, was "rushing to the country in a suntan election to mobilize the heat-wave...
Though it was written to get away from playwriting. Act One (Random House; $5) in a sense is still a play. It is a collection of fascinating characters whom the author parades before the footlights of his wit and warmth. There is first of all the character who dominated Moss Hart's poverty-ridden Bronx childhood: a grandfather, whom a casual neighbor might well have regarded as simply an embittered, ill-tempered old cigar maker, pathetically attached to his past friendship with the great labor leader, Sam Gompers. But in Moss Hart's telling, he becomes "an Everest...
...still lives on vitamin shots and fights insomnia), and the chance to sing gave her a new career. Today, when she walks her dog around her modest Encino home, lonely Lola is beginning to think that the world looks good. And her tentative joy is reflected in the intimate warmth of her songs. "I never had the remotest idea anybody would ever ask me to sing, but Columbia did," says she, "and I'm especially grateful for one thing: I don't sound like anybody else...
...brief burst of warmth toward the U.S. that followed his U.S. visit, Fidel Castro last May temporarily cooled toward Ernesto ("Che") Guevara, the Argentine Communist who served as Castro's top field commander in the Cuban revolution. Castro went on the air, said that he had been invited to many foreign lands to explain the Cuban revolution, but could not go. So, said Castro, "I am sending one of the most responsible compañeros of the revolution, Dr. Guevara. Nobody should have the slightest suspicion. He will be among us again within 30 or 45 days...