Word: alma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Spell (Hal Wallis; Paramount) is a sensitively observed and breathingly real tragedy of family life. Alma Duval (Shirley Booth) is a nice, warm, middle-aged body, given to sentiment, running to fat, the kind of woman whose world is bounded by porch and kitchen, husband and kids. She lives in a pleasant, old-fashioned house in a middle-class section of New Orleans, and her man (Anthony Quinn), a virile, still handsome Cajun ("They always stay young and excitable"), runs a successful employment agency. The three children are good-looking and intelligent. The oldest (Earl Holliman) is a live wire...
...gets into the usual back-and-forth with the oldest boy about the business. Finally, it all winds up in a big fight, and Pa insults the daughter's No. 1 prospect (Warren Stevens) and then stomps off to the pool hall with the younger boy, leaving Alma to face another of those long, long evenings alone, fooling around the kitchen, wondering what has gone wrong...
That night, though, when he gets home, Alma is still up, and she sees the lipstick on his shirt, and they have a row, and it all comes out. "She's not cheap," he shouts back. "She's young and kinda lost. I'm her world. It's like I was 20 again, the way I never was, the way you and me never knew love could be like." She slaps him then, and he walks out, and the next day he comes back for his clothes. "I've tried; I've done...
...roommates got thrown out for heaving a stink bomb at a freshman dance, and the third left because he couldn't stand it one minute longer. I remained by the skin of my teeth." Despite such candid appraisal of his needy alma mater by this lone survivor, the College's intercontinental radio commercial--the feature event of Harvard's Day--won almost universal acclaim from those who are supposed to know. Variety, the show business journal, though that the broadcast "made the Harvard eggheads sound as provocative as peelers...
...dozen or so of the huskier kids took him up. The slightly built (5 ft. 9 in., 145 Ibs.) teacher marched them to the gym, convinced them in successive falls of the importance of hard study. Ergil's qualifications for teaching, it turned out, included wrestling for his alma mater, the University of Istanbul. Other qualifications of Liberal Artist Ergil, now a U.S. citizen: two years of pre-med training, three years of political science and law, a master's degree from Stanford in French literature...