Word: wickedness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Emil Jannings, too, does a monumental job as the stern professor of Romantic persuasion who comes to his downfall through the love of a wicked woman. He is a superb actor, registering, with amazing fidelity, emotions ranging from fatuous mooning over Lola to enraged jealousy at the sight of another...
Just what authoress Jane Bowles is groping for in here trellisted summer house, a real Child's Garden of Freud, is difficult to imagine. Her characters are strays from the snake-pit, her dialogue is obscure, and the play is wildly incoherent. With cery strains from a vibra-harp introducing...
Muggeridge himself criticises U.S. policy only as "sentimental and imprecise" - i.e., too good for this wicked world. In fact, U.S. foreign policy since the war has been governed repeatedly, not by altruistic abstractions, not by sober assessment of world realities, not even (always) by fear of the U.S.S.R., but by...
At his home in Uvalde, Texas, former Vice President John Nance ("Cactus Jack") Garner, 84, who was once denounced by Labor Boss John L. Lewis as "a whisky-drinking, poker-playing, evil old man," had his picture taken as he played a wicked game of solitaire without a poker chip...
Playwright Krasna's pennyworth of wit and plot is about as much help to the proceedings as a sliver of ice to a long summer drink. And Kind Sir seems hardly more wicked than it is witty. Moreover, the production-instead of obeying the rule for froth, and moving...