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...University of London, which she swooped through in three years (on scholarships and with honors), Greer played in amateur theatricals. Her college yearbook thumbnailed her as "a unique blend of La Belle Dame Sans Merci and Goldilocks and the Three Bears." This unique blend returned from a year's study at Grenoble with a passionate desire to become an actress. Cried her Presbyterian grandmother: "No granddaughter of mine will ever lift her legs upon a stage." So Greer set up and operated a market research library for a London advertising firm, soon rated a respectable ?10 a week...
...monstrously innocent Emily is terrifying. In the play (because she has to be toned down) she is merely terrified. Similarly all the other children gain in cuteness, lose in acuity, turn physical handsprings instead of moral somersaults. Hence the strange, remote world of the pirate ship does not blend with the stranger, even more remote world of childhood...
...develops a rich comic realism. His conventional pinstripes and orgiastic ties, his scuffed luggage, his interviews with various Washington bureaucratic heavies are bright enough bits of authenticity to delight any director. Agnes Moorehead, under Dudley Nichols' direction, turns in a portrait of a Washington wolverine which is a blend of comic-strip and Daumier. Paul Stewart, rescued from expert portrayals of smooth crooks, makes a small part as a newshawk the best thing in Government Girl...
...shrewdly plotted blend of detection and intrigue, and a thick cut above the average mystery yarn in content and writing...
...Navy wife wrote: "My husband . . . wants a child. I do not. ... I don't want to drag around alone during those miserable nine months. . . . Am I just a selfish female?" Mary called the writer "harebrained," said: "My immediate reaction . . . is a blend of nausea and dismay...