Word: orphan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Orphan Alliance. France and the Benelux powers had not been reassured by the week's developments. These were the countries that had been the first to sign up in the Atlantic pact group. Originally they had insisted on a U.S. promise that it would go to war in their support. Later they had compromised, comforting themselves with the fact that between them and the Red army were U.S. occupation troops in Germany; presumably the U.S. would fight if its own forces were attacked. No such token shield protected Scandinavia, Western Europe's left flank...
...dialogue and the situations is what tells, and it is forced, hoary, and sometimes private. It seems to depend sololy on the type of wit referred to in the first sentence: the humor of the iconoclast. Now, there's no one who enjoys more than I the prospect of Orphan Annie getting her due, which, in this instance, comes in being taken advantage of by some drunken Yaleman (and later handed over, a hopeless reprobate, to the making of Li'l Abner), but the initial joy of such humor is soon dissipated, and by the time the reader wades through...
...story is a heavy-footed fantasy about a war orphan (Dean Stockwell) adopted by a singing waiter (Pat O'Brien). Overnight, the boy's hair turns green (in Technicolor). He is a symbol of the tragedy that war inflicts on children. But townspeople grow intolerant of the boy because his green hair makes him "different." ("How would you like your sister to marry someone with green hair...
...children of Bora Bora mothers by unknown Army and Navy fathers. They are healthy, sturdy youngsters, and probably a great deal happier than nine-tenths of the children elsewhere in the world. Whether born in or out of wedlock, no island child ever goes into an orphan asylum. There are no such institutions down here...
Symphonie Pastorale (Jean Delannoy) is a subtle, emotionally complex story about a blind orphan (Michele Morgan) and a married Swiss pastor (Pierre Blanchar) who shelters, schools and raises her from a little wild animal into a lovely young woman. The pastor is the last to realize that his fatherly affection is really only a thin disguise for a lover's jealous passion. His wife (Line Noro) is a bitter, knowing onlooker. Just to complicate things, his son (Jean Desailly) also falls in love, but quite openly, with the girl...