Kitty Foyle is a 1939 American novel by Christopher Morley . A bestseller in 1939 and 1940, it was adapted as a popular 1940 film , and was republished during World War II as an Armed Services Edition .
17-439: Kitty Foyle may refer to: In arts and entertainment [ edit ] Kitty Foyle (novel) , by Christopher Morley Kitty Foyle (film) , a 1940 film starring Ginger Rogers Kitty Foyle (radio and TV series) , an American radio and television soap opera Kitty Foiled , an animated Tom and Jerry cartoon short Other uses [ edit ] Kitty Foyle (dress) ,
34-469: A dress style of the 1940s Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Kitty Foyle . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kitty_Foyle&oldid=901677193 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
51-439: A sharpness born of long and affectionate intimacy." Rat race A rat race is an endless, self-defeating, or pointless pursuit. The phrase equates humans to rats attempting to earn a reward such as cheese, in vain. It may also refer to a competitive struggle to get ahead financially or routinely. The term is commonly associated with an exhausting, repetitive lifestyle that leaves no time for relaxation or enjoyment. In
68-538: A voice that still betrays a trace of the accent of his native Holland. In protesting against the speedup, Goudsmit can speak with authority, for in the course of only a few years, he, like many other contemporary physicists, has seen his way of life change from a tranquil one of contemplation to a rat race. Philip K. Dick used the term in " The Last of the Masters " published in 1954: "Maybe," McLean said softly, "you and I can then get off this rat race. You and I and all
85-410: A yen for social pleasure, need to be a complete woman with all a woman's satisfactions and they need a chance to be creating and doing. And the men their own age can't do much for them, also the girls grow up too damn fast because they absorb the point of view of older people they work for. Their own private life gets to be a rat race . Jesusgod, I read about the guts of the pioneer woman and the woman of
102-530: Is a rat race, and remember this, even if you win you are still a rat." William H. Whyte used the term rat race in The Organization Man published in 1956: The word collective most of them can't bring themselves to use—except to describe foreign countries or organizations they don't work for—but they are keenly aware of how much more deeply beholden they are to organization than were their elders. They are wry about it, to be sure; they talk of
119-433: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Kitty Foyle (novel) The novel tells of a white-collar girl who falls in love with a young socialite, despite the objections of his family. Contemporary Authors noted: "Central to the story is protagonist Kitty's affair with the affluent Wyn Strafford. Critics heatedly debated Morley's sexual sensationalism ," notably
136-677: The "treadmill," the "rat race," of the inability to control one's direction. Merle A. Tuve used the term rat race in a 1959 article entitled "Is Science Too Big for the Scientist?", writing: There is a growing conviction among many of my friends in academic circles that the university today is no place for a scholar in science. A professor's life nowadays is a rat-race of busyness and activity, managing contracts and projects, guiding teams of assistants, bossing crews of technicians, making numerous trips, sitting on committees for government agencies, and engaging in other distractions necessary to keep
153-514: The actions (loops, rolls, spins, Immelmann turns etc.) performed by an experienced pilot. From 1939, the phrase took on the meaning of "competitive struggle" referring to a person's work and life. The Rat Race was used as a title for a novel written by Jay Franklin in 1947 for Colliers Magazine and first published in book form in 1950. It is dedicated To those few rats in Washington who do not carry brief-cases. The term "rat race"
170-534: The cast were Bud Collyer and Mark Smith. The series continued until June 9, 1944. The Kitty Foyle television series , starring Kathleen Murray, debuted in 1958 and was telecast on NBC for two seasons. Margaret Wallace, reviewing the novel in The New York Times, called it "sparkling." There is no use trying to pick good things out of this book. Something on almost every page clamors for quotation. Wallace says that Morley first thought of calling
187-517: The dustbowl and the gingham goddess of the covered wagon. What about the woman of the covered typewriter? What has she got, poor kid, when she leaves the office? ... [Molly said] "Do you know what we are? we're sharecroppers. We work like nigger hands in a cotton field and give Palmer's more brainwork than they'd know what to do with and what do we get for it? Eight hour's sleep, I guess, because that's about all we're fit for. Wallace notes that Morley "knows Philadelphia and pokes fun at it constantly, with
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#1732776805776204-426: The late 1800s, the term "rat-run" was used meaning "maze-like passages by which rats move about their territory", commonly used in a derogatory sense. By the 1930s actual rat races of some sort are frequently mentioned among carnival and gambling attractions. By 1934, "rat-race" was also used in reference to aviation training, referring to a " follow-the-leader " game in which a trainee fighter pilot had to copy all
221-431: The main character's out-of-wedlock pregnancy and abortion. The story is told by Kitty in the first person. A sociologist suggests that "Kitty, in her observations of the mores and behavior patterns of the upper class acts as the anthropological alter ego of Morley, viewing the upper class from the outside." Kitty Foyle is one of the works for which the publishing firm of J.B. Lippincott is remembered. In addition to
238-471: The novel Nation Wide, showing that "he considered its problem national in scope and of social significance." Wallace points to a paragraph from the novel which can be taken as a statement of the problem: Molly and me had a talk one time about the White Collar Women, there's millions of them, getting maybe 15 to 30 a week, they've got to dress themselves right up to the hilt, naturally they have
255-414: The rest of us. And live like human beings." "Rat race," Fowler murmured. "Rats in a maze. Doing tricks. Performing chores thought up by somebody else." McClean caught Fowler's eye. "By somebody of another species." Jim Bishop used the term rat race in his book The Golden Ham: A Candid Biography of Jackie Gleason. The term occurs in a letter Jackie Gleason wrote to his wife in which he says: "Television
272-499: The successful 1940 film, Kitty Foyle was adapted to radio. It was heard on the serialized anthology Stories America Loves , broadcast on CBS from October 6, 1941, to October 2, 1942. The serial of Kitty Foyle , beginning in June 1942 with Julie Stevens in the title role, proved so popular with the listening audience that Stories America Loves was dropped, and the title was simply changed to Kitty Foyle on October 5, 1942. Others in
289-473: Was used in an article about Samuel Goudsmit published in 1953 entitled: A Farewell to String and Sealing Wax~I in which Daniel Lang wrote: Sometimes when his sardonic mood is on him, he wonders whether the synchrotrons , the betatrons , the cosmotrons , and all the other contrivances physicists have lately rigged up to create energy by accelerating particles of matter aren't playing a wry joke on their inventors. "They are accelerating us too," he says, in
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