Word: wrecks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scarcely seemed real, while Maureen Stapleton lacked the necessary hardness for Pilar. Eli Wallach was superb as the irresponsible gypsy Rafael. But in a far too slowly paced production, it was only Pablo, the broken guerrilla leader, who became a really moving figure; as played by Nehemiah Persoff, the wreck of a once brave man had touches of real tragedy, and strangely, the coward's lines rang truer, more human than the surrounding heroics...
...Carola Kitteridge's caricature of the sister's landlady was one of the delights of the evening. Robert Scher, as the eventual recipient of Ruth's long repressed affections, made up for an adequate voice with his ease and natural stage manner. The roles of the Village lovers, the Wreck and his Helen, were capably filled by Oscar Anderson and Jill Kneerim...
...life Henderson has tilted at destiny and lost. His father was disappointed in him; his wife tricked him into marrying her; his children do not understand him. His idealistic urge to be a physician was stillborn. A hulking six-footer weighing 230 Ibs., Henderson is a kind of Herculean wreck with a bad leg from a World War II wound, a deaf ear, a bridgeful of false teeth and a nose bulbous from overdrinking. All he has is $3,000,000 and a demonic inner voice that says "I want, I want, I want...
...anybody's private property, either. Nothing makes me more disgusted than the egotism of people who think they can use God-to make it stop raining on the day of the picnic, or spare their lives in a disaster. My family and I were in a train wreck a while ago in France. I had taken two of my children into the dining car ahead for some ice cream, and we were served unusually quickly-which meant that just before the wreck we had left the car, in which a great many people were killed. Some of my Christian...
...offers a clear and orderly description of how the New Deal agencies came into being, were fought over, adjusted themselves to success or failure. But as Schlesinger tells it. the outcome was almost always success: he even purports to show something good-a sense of solidarity-resulting from the wreck of NRA. Like his hero F.D.R.. Author Schlesinger proves himself a thoroughgoing pragmatist; he sticks close to events, rarely offers perspective on them. There is little effort to explore the philosophical roots of the New Deal, and there is no attempt at long-range assessment beyond the reiterated conviction...