Word: youngs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...start of the film is striking. The hero, a young Negro (Harry Belafonte), is trapped by a mine cave-in. Five days later he digs his way back to the surface. "I made it!" he shouts in triumph, but nobody replies. The pit head is deserted. The town is deserted. The highways are deserted as the hero, panic-stricken, goes speeding off toward Manhattan, the nearest big city, in the first car he finds. At the Hudson River he is stopped short. The George Washington Bridge is jammed to the rails with abandoned automobiles, all arrested in a desperate plunge...
...Young Philadelphias (Warner), the film version of a popular novel by Richard Powell, is a sort of updated Kitty Foyle that has lost its wit and is fumbling for a moral: social status isn't everything. As in Christopher Morley's 1939 bestseller, the story tells what happens when a Philadelphia girl (Diane Brewster) tries to go beyond her station on the well-known Main Line. She marries into one of the very best families, but on her wedding night discovers that the blue blood has run pathetically thin. Frightened and confused, she flies back to the arms...
Passion for Nature. In Biographer Green's view, Grahame was a strange and troubled man, who never really left his own childhood. Young Kenneth's mother died when he was five, and his alcoholic father shipped him and three other Grahame children from Inveraray to the home of a grandmother in Cookham Dene. The grandmother and the other relatives who raised the children were far from monsters-at worst, reports Green, they were irritable and unimaginative. But to Kenneth they were, in his caustic description, "Olympians," given to religious hypocrisy, sticky sentiment, willful stupidity and dullness. Most damning...
Sentimentality often prevails in the characteristic Art Nouveau simplification of natural forms. The handle of an American silver mirror, done under this style's influence, depicts the body of a young girl clad in what seems to and turning along the border. Though she may be swirling reeds; her glamorized face appears on the mirror's back, her luxuriant hair twisting sound sensuous, she merely looks affected, coy and thoroughly uninviting...
...When a young faculty couple took over the head residentship of Comstock Hall last fall, their arrival marked a sharp departure from the white-haired house mothers who have traditionally graced the demitasse tables of the Radcliffe Quad. When the David B. Bevingtons move in to Moors Hall next September, the Cliffe community will be able to welcome them with greater equanimity. "The Browns have been a big help to us," Bevington observed. "We're glad not to be pioneers...