Word: lovingly
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...fact, if every department enrolled all the volunteers they said they needed, one out of every ten people in the city would have a specific job in the army of civilian defense. Many more would have to help out on a moment's notice. The biblical injunction to love thy neighbor was being forced on men by man's own unneighborliness. Communism and the atom had posed a problem of total war in which civilians were totally involved...
...additions, Yale custodians had years of editing and assorting ahead of them. Now they had more than 1,000 additional manuscript pages from the Life of Johnson and Tour to the Hebrides. There were also such tidbits as a report to Jean-Jacques Rousseau on Boswell's own love affairs, and a verdict on Dr. Johnson's old friend, Mrs. Thrale (". . . For all her care and attention she was amply repaid by the gratification of her vanity in having so great a man ... to use, as it were, in her possession...
Shaped by less adroit hands, the movie's inevitable love interest might have proved a stumbling block; instead, it gives the story a lift. One of Gwenn's friendly neighbors, U.N. Translator Dorothy McGuire, inadvertently receives and passes some of the queer, thus catches the eye of T-man Burt Lancaster. Eager to prolong his attentions, she reads up on counterfeiting and begins spouting counterfeiter's argot. This maneuver sets up a clever scene in which Lancaster gives her a whispered grilling at a nightclub table while wandering violinists serenade them with romantic mood music. The romance...
...anywhere leads to his becoming Miss Swanson's "kept man," suffers through this indignity with a convincing series of pained expressions and outbursts, while his voice narrates the story from a "there I was, what-could-I-do" point of view. Miss Olsen is the "other girl" whose love for Holden brings the piece to its violent conclusion and brings on Miss Swanson's complete breakdown...
Other shows slated for next month include "The Barrier," "The Day After tomorrow," a return engagement of "I Know My Love," with the Lunts, and "Bell, Book, and Candle." Apart from the D'Oyly Carte's revivals of G. and S., "The Barrier" is the only musical booked so far. It is based on Wright's "Native Son," and stars Lawrence Tibbett. "Death of a Salesman," with Thomas Mitchell playing Willy Loman, will arrive from Broadway in late November...