Word: splendid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...jailers' constant and somehow insane concern for the prisoner's welfare-all add up to a caricature of prisons everywhere. The fussy, pedantic, sentimental jailers are so many congealed crocodile tears; what a naughty boy the prisoner really is, they appear to be saying, not eating his splendid meals, and depressing them (who try to do their best for him) with his gloomy moods and incessant questions as to the hour of his doom...
...never been a year as abundant or as good. In the Romanée-Conti vineyards, the wine-men say that God waited until Archbishop Roncalli (who blessed the fields after the war, when he was papal nuncio in France) became Pope before answering his plea for a splendid crop...
...Dining Hall Department should take a serious look at its policy of unlimited seconds. Among the major colleges of the country, Harvard stands in splendid isolation as the only one which hands out food almost indefinitely to a student. The Central Kitchen, to serve 2,200 dinners, will purchase 2,000 pounds of relatively expensive meat. But by eliminating the additional handouts, the amount ordered might be cut 10 to 15 per cent...
...John F. Kennedy: "The Eager John, a very glamorous missile. There are those who contend that there is nothing to surpass the sheer beauty of the Eager John, poised on the launching pad in profile against a sunrise shining upon clouds of Gallup polls. The picture becomes even more splendid when the Eager John is accompanied by its graceful satellite missile, the Joyful Jacqueline. The Eager John has a tendency to yaw between North and South, which appears at times to check its forward motion. No expense is being spared, however, in correcting these faults, and the familiar hoffa-hoffa...
There are some better performances among the seven stars. As Shotover's indescribable daughter Hesione, Diana Wynward is splendid, and Pamela Brown is at least intriguing as her sister Ariadne, Lady Utterword. (They are not the "demon women" Hector describes, but that is Shaw's fault more than theirs.) Ellie Dunn, who begins as a romantic ingenue and becomes one of the quietly scary, hard-as-nails young women only Shaw could create, is played well enough by Diane Cilento...