Word: woode
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...varsity plays it next match this afternoon against Wesleyan, the strongest of the small college teams, which has defeated both Boston College and Brown. Today's lineup will be: Briggs, Grundeman, Beady, David, Rose, Tyler, and Winthrop House senior North Wood...
Marjorie Morningstar (Warner) speeds up the plot of Herman Wouk's bestseller, but the telling still takes a long 123 minutes. Though Marjorie (Natalie Wood) is deprived of that mad moment of youthful abandon with her lover (Gene Kelly), she at least avoids ending up with grey hair, suburbia and a stuffy lawyer. Instead she goes up to re-examine the summer resort South Wind, spends a few minutes staring at the still irresponsible Kelly, and decides to leave him and his world forever. "Say, you've really grown up, haven't you," says the resort manager...
...Gene Kelly sings and dances too well to be a convincing second-rater, but he gives an agile performance as the camp entertainment director. As schmalzy Uncle Samson, Ed Wynn gets a few laughs, and Claire Trevor is sharp and clear as the irritating but well-meaning mother. Natalie Wood, a great beauty, is something less than a great actress. Her most believable moment comes when Marjorie, despairing of Broadway acting fame, says mechanically: "Sometimes I think I don't have any talent...
...Alan Wood's biography is not a definitive one. It hardly could be since the tireless octogenarian it has for its subject has already survived his biographer (who died last year) and has, since the book reached the stands, created the need for another chapter by leading the nuclear disarmament movement which is now rocking England. Even so, the author often takes too doting an attitude. Most intelligent children are somewhat saddened, for example, when they find that Euclid's axioms cannot themselves be proven; but in the disappointment of the eleven-year old Russell, Wood imagines he sees already...
...only singles match not to go three sets, Weld trounced his opponent 6-2, 6-2. Bill Wood, trailing 4-0 in the last set, rallied to win 6-3, 2-6, 7-5 at the fourth singles position...