Word: moffat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Flirtations & Affairs. Considering themselves journalists first, today's editors are not much impressed with the pretensions of high society. "We aren't pressagents grooming society's image," says Frances Moffat, women's editor of the San Francisco Chronicle. "We're reporting the scene." Concentrating on her city's long-revered upper crust, she shows much more enthusiasm for quips about their flirtations and affairs than for their marriages and charity balls. In one column she idly wondered how to send an invitation to a couple who are living together out of wedlock. "Should...
...claim of the ideal." His pinched nostrils seem to sniff moral pollution in the air. He abominates his widowed father, a pompous timber merchant, accusing him of real and fancied slights to his dead mother. Taking lodgings in the modest household of a former classmate, Hjalmar Ekdal (Donald Moffat), Gregers uncovers more extensive proof of his father's evil ways. Not only did he bring lifelong disgrace to Hjalmar's father through a crooked timber deal, but he also seduced Hjalmar's wife (Betty Miller), a former housekeeper in the Werle household; Gregers' father sired...
Obsessed with illusion and reality, Pirandello was ironically amused at the assurance of most people that they can tell which is which. He held the self to be an impenetrably veiled mystery. The character named Laudisi (Donald Moffat), who speaks for Pirandello in the play, says: "What can we really know about other people? Who they are, what they are, what they are doing, and why they are doing it?" The busybodies of the world who try to lift that veil find no truth, but they do uncover the pain at the heart of existence. If the motherin...
...course, You Can't Take It With You is still propelled by the zany character of the Sycamore family. Grandfather (Donald Moffat) is a business dropout who has devoted 35 years to raising a small colony of snakes in a goldfish tank in the living room. He is related to uncribbed spirits and surrounded by live-in transients. These errant moles of home industry manufacture and explode Fourth-of-July fireworks unperiodically, do ostrichy parodies of ballet, and massacre Beethoven on the xylophone. It does not dawn...
...nearest and dearest and who paradoxically loves and is loved by them. His dying words to his daughter, "Put on your white dress. I always liked it," have the poignant impact of mortality that only the greatest writers achieve with the simplest of sentiments. His son, Prince Andrei (Donald Moffat), has the ache of desolation in his face, a man who goes off to war because death has already claimed his heart. As Andrei's love-tossed, love-lost Natasha, Rosemary Harris is spunky, vulnerable and unutterably feminine...