Word: youngs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another new artist of major importance is the young Swedish spinto soprano, Elisabeth Soederstroem who portrays Suzanna in the new Figaro. She acts charmingly and phrases with a sensitivity and delightful youthfulness that only a born Suzanna could achieve...
...turns out, the movie's pivotal figure is Woody Thrasher (David Wayne), a rising young executive who is torn between his innate sense of honor (of course no man of honor would want to work in Madison Avenue) and financial pressure (it is almost axiomatic that men of honor have mortgages to pay). Thrasher's story, with some minor changes, has been told repeatedly in the past few years...
...membership includes many types of people: solid citizen businessman, who does not want his financial interests subverted by politicians who might try to squeeze more taxes for their own profit; the young, liberal Democrat, favoring a clean city government, free of the bad qualities of bossism; and natural minorities like Jews and Negroes who see the CCA as a road by which they can express and protect their interests...
...such newcomer is Bernard Goldberg, a young CCA-endorsed attorney. His problem, he says, is the lack of publicity. To win, Goldberg states he first needs a basic minimum of at least 1,500 first place votes to keep him in the count. He reasons logically enough that unless he can stay in the count after the obvious stragglers have been eliminated, he cannot possibly benefit from any second, third, or fourth choice votes he may pick up from being on the CCA slate...
Peter Gesell's performance as Jim the Gentleman Caller presents something of a problem to the critic. Mr. Williams describes Jim as "a nice, ordinary young man," but he has written the part as a symbol of the expansive American spirit that has destroyed the world of gentility and graces in which Amanda Wingfield tries so desperately to live. If Jim occasionally comes across as crudely caricatured, like an American (like the American) in a British book or movie or play, it is largely because Mr. Williams has written him that way, and because Mr. Hancock has made him sprawl...