Word: knobs
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Morgan bends every effort to keep the televiewer's hand away from the knob. Inheriting a large audience from the Berle show, which precedes his own, Morgan tries to keep it by spelling out the plot quickly and in big, block letters. "We've even had to tack things up on the wall so people can see plainly what we're talking about from start to finish," he admits. Every scene moves the plot forward, with little time frittered away on character and atmosphere. "It's not that we're so damned much better than...
...than the mill run of TV comedy programs. Grinning affably, Young, a 29-year-old Scotsman who grew up in Vancouver, B.C., underplayed everything skillfully. In his first scene he painted himself into a corner of a room, then painted a door and doorknob on the wall, turned the knob gingerly and made a softshoe exit...
...carefully drawn the rusting weapons carriers and fading fatigue uniforms of the demoralized armies. Yet the realism of this story is underlaid with symbolism; the symbolism of the sergeant's night journey to his childhood and attempted rebirth. Guerard tends to overwork a few images: the honey knob of a girl's shoulder and the hovering of aircraft above the battlefield, for instance. He relies upon the disturbing device of a narrator who narrates only at intervals, sees things far differently from the sergeant, and points up the ambiguity of the book. But the war remains thoroughly real...