Word: suggested
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Author Suckow, now 66, lives in California, but not even painful arthritis can stop her pen. She has several books going, and there is nothing in this new one to suggest that Iowa will ever leave her blood. Wooden in plot and undistinguished in writing, The John Wood Case finds its strength in an evocation of the kind of life that the nation may never know again, a society in which the Bible was a fact of life, in which an austere Sunday dinner was eaten in the presence of a blackboard which bore "discussion themes" for the children...
...Asked to suggest physical improvements for Dudley, commuters gave a long list, including more room for quiet studying, better game room, more gracious dining hall, junior common "that isn't just an entrance hall," several small meeting rooms, and shower facilities. Other notable items: more lockers and coat-racks, a coffee shop, "huge" parking lot, evening meals, larger bunkroom, bicycle and scooter parking, and most of all--a new, centralized facility designed with the commuting student in mind...
...cliche--complete with goose-stepping, bombing and all the rest of it--as the beauty of Anne Frank's character dissolves into naughty cuteness, we are left with eight people who flirt, fight, and fret in a disappointingly usual way. The play managed, without ever seeming to strain, to suggest how sustained tension and continuous confinement would affect them, while the film injects these changes artificially...
...provide undergraduates with a medium for free, creative expression," to "bring to a new audience . . .," "to suggest the way toward controversy . . .," and with each such credo the great Hindu Wheel turns ever so slightly on its axis and Wisdom Incarnate emerges in the form of a new publication around Harvard Square...
Musicomedienne Gray can line-drive a song to the exits, Merman-fashion, but her Frenchy never travels more than one block west of Broadway. Griffith's Destry is immensely likable but far too much the Arkansas traveler to suggest any purpose deeper than palaver. Everyone works hard to prove that everything, except the performance, is a joke. But Destry Rides Again only for the gold in them thar box-office tills...