Word: lovingly
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...follows one woman, Tabitha Baskett, whose life and strange love weaves through the Victorian Era, the Kaiser War, the depression, and still another war. Her life is a story of changing manners and morals. It starts as a life of revolt, against the humid prudery of a rural town, against the respectability of Victorian London; it ends in resistance to the new fangled ideas of younger revolutionists...
Occasionally he digs up something previously untouched and writes a paper on it, as he intends to do with his "other love," musical symbolism in Palestrina. "Sometimes I think these projects are smokescreens thrown up by the subconscious ... It's as if the subconscious were working on something and didn't want you to look at it until it was through...
Twentieth-Century Fox has unfortunately overlaid McKelway's remarkable story with a vencer of slick plot and slovenly acting. An incipient love theme stumbles awkwardly in and out of the hunt for 880; it involves Burt Lancaster as the Treasury man who catches 880, and Dorothy Maguire as a U.N. interpreter who had little to do with the original story at all. Lancaster handles a wide range of emotion by wrinkling his forehead (sincerity), rolling his eyes (bewilderment), and flashing a hair-trigger smile (most everything else); Miss Maguire is hyperthyroid. What saves the picture is the warm and careful...
Elizabeth Rowan knew how to love. She loved everyone simply for what he was: her husband for a cold, frightened man who dared not risk feeling much for anyone, her sister for a soul-sick shrew who could not control her bad feeling for everyone, her priest for a muddled half-innocent who did not yet know what he really felt about anything except religion. Almost all the people Elizabeth knew dreaded her love as much as they wanted it. Her husband once stormed at her: "I know there are times when it's worse than hating to love...
...subservient, and he has little use for democracy: "Freedom leads to equality, and equality to stagnation-which is death . . . The multitude is never free . . ." The happiest men are to be found in "deserts^ monasteries." It soon becomes apparent, in fact, that Saint-Ex wanted the passion for God and love to flourish in a social framework which would shortly make violent rebels of most men of spirit...