Word: wayward
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Boylston boards. After long acquaintance, the cast has mastered its vehicle sufficiently to give a performance that is fluid throughout, practiced, but not off-hand. The difficult problem of presenting a prostitute with sympathy rather than derision is artistically accomplished and the mother's benevolent attitude toward her wayward daughter is made understandable, not ridiculous. The clash of wills between the unrelenting, religious father and his family is demonstrated so convincingly by inference in the preliminary scenes that the final denouement and ensuing household-rending fight seems unavoidable rather than contrived...
...WAYWARD Bus (312 pp.)-John Steinbeck-Viking...
...Wayward Bus, which Steinbeck wrote in 90 days last summer in the air-conditioned Manhattan office of his publisher, is his first book since Cannery Row, his first full-length novel since The Grapes of Wrath...
...lonely blonde. Like a lot of others, she had come to spill her troubles to a bosomy Negro blues singer named Julia Lee. She ordered two shots of bourbon for Julia, and a Tom Collins for herself. Julia Lee heard out the story of the blonde's wayward husband, then said with professional assurance: "Everything's going to turn out all right, honey." Then it was time for her act. From her piano, Julia beat out a boogie-woogie rhythm with her strong left hand and sang in a dark purple contralto her own Julia's Blues...
...Takers. But the other Bretton Woods twin, the World Bank, was not growing up to be such a credit to its founders. It was beginning to be regarded as almost a wayward child. There was still no taker for the $30,000-a-year job (tax free) which President Eugene Meyer resigned. And the Bank itself, with an assist from Treasury Secretary John W. Snyder, bungled the announcement of another resignation. As a matter of courtesy, Vice President Harold D. Smith thought he ought to hand in his resignation, let the new president keep him or name a new vice...