Word: wisdoms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...impressive moments -Stacton's people talk very well. They may, in fact, talk a bit too well; after a time the author's fondness for epigrams becomes almost as irritating as Aldous Huxley's old weakness for brandishing his scientific erudition. "The one thing wisdom does foolishly," Stacton chisels in the enduring wood pulp, "is to overlook the power of folly." And "though women, like cats, enjoy boredom and derive great strength from...
...ring or parental approval. She is a natural creature of obedience, stoic when the time comes to pin on the stigmatic yellow badge. She accepts Cassidy's infant foster daughter, his dull and his dangerous cronies, his personal instability as readily as her father's orthodox wisdom. When she finally goes to bed with Cassidy, it is with the air of "This, too, shall pass." For all that, Myra is not a wooden figure. She is at least as believable in her resignation as is Eva in her chin-up tenacity...
Mark Twain Tonight! Actor Hal Holbrook, 34, ages, rages and charms as he brilliantly re-creates the wit and wisdom of the humorist...
Mark Twain Tonight! Actor Hal Holbrook, 34, ages, rages and charms as he brilliantly re-creates the wit and wisdom of the 70-year-old humorist...
...this to point up the wisdom of John Houseman's directorial approach to the play. On the rare occasions when it is produced, the work usually tends to be turned into a circus. This Houseman steadfastly refused to do. He preferred to play it straight for the most part; though he was not afraid to introduce occasional bits of humor where they really belong, as in the phony prisoner-of-war inquisition. But, much to his credit, he had the good taste not to court a cheap laugh by having Helena make her final entrance obviously great with child...