Word: steinbeck
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have chilled most network programmers, WNTA's earlier choices would have set their teeth to chattering. So far, The Play of the Week has dealt with such themes as drunkenness and sexuality in a priest (Graham Greene's The Power and the Glory), sterility and infidelity (John Steinbeck's Burning Bright), infanticide (Medea, with Judith Anderson), and clerical tyranny (Paul Vincent Carroll's The White Steed). Says Producer David Susskind: "We have none of those pernicious and aggravating conditions and taboos that you get everywhere else on TV." Most memorable example to date-WNTA...
...Nehru as the "Prime Minister of 'Bharat.' " The results often got ludicrous. When Hussein Shaheed Suhrawardy visited the U.S. as Pakistan Prime Minister two years ago, Pakistani readers learned that he had been presented with a "Bharati" blanket by a Navajo girl. A translation of John Steinbeck's The Red Pony called the American Indians in the story "Pak-Bharatis," meaning the kind of people that used to inhabit India together...
...Cain and Abel" theme of Steinbeck's novel does not become vivid until the very end of the movie. Rather the story suggests Tom Jones or Huckleberry Finn.Caleb Trask, (Jimmy Dean) is really a good guy at heart, but there is no one around to tell him he is "no good" because his father has rejected him. His pranks are worthy of a Tom Sawyer--but the complication lies in the fact that his brother Aaron is not a prig or toady, but a good guy too. To further complicate the situation, Alma (Julie Harris), the "Becky Sharp...
...personality "too cold." Michiko seems to have been drawn to a Japanese diplomat and was disappointed when he was sent to a post in Europe. He wrote her long, graceful letters dealing mostly with the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen, at a time when she was reading Steinbeck and Faulkner. Asked Michiko crossly: "Does he think I am still a child...
...cartoonland, basketball centers are lean and heron-legged, fullbacks loom half a mile high, thoroughbreds trade wisecracks with their jockeys on the drive to the wire. More startling, his situations may be parodies of a Keats poem or a Steinbeck novel. A literate wit, plus a newsman's flair for capsuling the essence of a story, is the mark of Sports Cartoonist Willard Harlan Mullin, 55, of the Scripps-Howard New York World-Telegram and Sun (circ...