Word: writer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...silver plates dipped in gold. Some of the guests: Dwight and Mamie Eisenhower, General Alfred Gruenther, Papal Legate Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli (now Pope John XXIII), the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Prince Bernhard of The Netherlands, Cardinal Spellman, Bernard Baruch, and practically every noted French politician, artist or writer...
...Oedipus complex about Alma Mater has long nourished English letters. From the days of Thomas Hughes (Tom Brown's Schooldays), almost the first things heard out of an English writer are usually the half-strangulated noises of one noosed in an old school tie. As an obsessive theme the Old School has no counterpart in U.S. fiction, unless it is the Home Town and the shouts of the boys who cry Wolfe...
...Frenchman Jean Giraudoux; Giraudoux's characters, he says, are "human beings of acute sensibility; they are not thugs or sadists, but suffering, cultured people." He does not find much value in the angry works of John Osborne or in the experimental theatre of Samuel Beckett. "Osborne is an arresting writer; he makes you listen to him, but his characters are monsters and have no awareness that they are monsters...
Dinner at Home. In the wake of success, the pressures mounted. Belafonte's first psychoanalyst was a woman whose husband happened to be a writer and sometime talent agent. Says Belafonte: ''Her husband took me over." While the doctor attempted an emotional analysis. the agent applied economic therapy. Before long, Harry broke with both the analyst and the agent. Then his marriage fell apart. "I didn't know the fireside and meals every night at 6," says Harry, but Marguerite knew little else. She now has custody of their two children, Adrienne, 9, and Shari...
...with Mel Ferrer and Inger Stevens as one of the three survivors of an earth-shattering atomic disaster (the script is based roughly on a prophetic 1902 novel entitled The Purple Cloud). By all reports, despite a clumsy story it is Belafonte's best acting job to date. Writer-Director Ranald MacDougall was surprised by Belafonte's chameleon ability to take on the emotional coloration of almost any scene he was playing. At one point Belafonte was required to go into a wrecked church, sit down in a pew and cry. "I didn't give...