Word: wonderers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Once installed the Brooks pursued an open door policy with a vengeance. Every meal, they relate, included two or more impromptu guests and sometimes a roomful; on Sundays the house overflowed with visitors. For all this I admire their stamina though I wonder how they kept their sanity. New Volunteers anywhere are usually so eager for friends that they practically pull people in through the windows, with the result that they accumulate a large number of urchins, hangers-on and people looking for gifts--"leeches," as a Volunteer who served in Iran referred to them. (In my own experience...
After 41 years of composing precise, graceful works, it is a wonder that the old Piston, now 73, has not worn down. "At my age," he admits, "ideas do recur, but when they do, you simply have to throw them...
...affair. It's menacing. Daniel Seltzer's production wasn't menacing enough. We didn't feel oppressed as Angelo, Claudio, the studs, even Isabel fell under the repressive law. So the transformation at the end of the play from life under law to life under grace wasn't a wonder. More routine than relieving...
...When I see an American soldier I feel very sorry for my people. We are so small and dark and underfed compared to Americans. Life must be very good and the work must be easy where they come from. I wonder why they want to come to this poor place...
...surprising that a first film should be influenced, and Hunter (who knows his Hitchcock and Welles very well) has had the wit to pick good models. I wonder, though, whether his larger view of human relationships and actions hasn't been over-determined by the number of movies he's seen. Is it intentional that the triangle of Cliffie, hero, and ellusive temptress so closely parallels the triangle in Vertigo? I suppose it is, but I can't help preferring the Hunter who very logically (and rather sweetly) sets the recently de-zombied roommate to opening a pile of mail...