Word: idealizations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Myrna Loy as the mother and Jeanne Crain as the eldest daughter are in their element. Long the queen of the understanding wives, Miss Loy is superb as the brake on Gilbreth's genius. Miss Crain, of course, has stars in her eyes; she is an ideal selection for the heroine of the high school prom...
...finished product is probably as good as most summer stock productions. Quinn and Holland aim at leaving their viewers satisfied, if not stimulated. Ideally, says Quinn, "we try to find a story of fairly simple people in an extraordinarily emotional situation." But the ideal specifications cannot always be met. Last week's show, The Queen's Husband, written by Robert Emmet Sherwood in 1928, told how a constitutional monarch outwitted a domineering wife and a dictatorial prime minister by uniting with a Communist-Labor coalition. Kraft's version emerged as pure Graustark, with not a Communist...
...Beach, Visiting Professor of American Literature. "He was as much loved for his warmth and generous heart as he was respected and admired for his brilliant mind and strict patience. He was one of the finest critics and most serious and penetrating thinkers. He was a teacher in the ideal sense of the word...
...Ideal But Impractical...
...Europeans, integration is a wonderful ideal, but at the moment is very impractical. Their leaders have been working to restore industry on its pre-war basis. Their attention is focused on national improvement, and no politician will do anything that will temporarily disrupt his country's economy, even if it is for the long run good...