Word: aarons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scholar. Besides a possibly finer sensitivity to human problems which the mature artist attains through the creative experience, he offers the student a conception of the pertinence of art as well as of the possibility of using knowledge creatively and not merely passively. If such men as Aaron Copland, W. H. Auden, William Faulkner, and Arthur Miller could be encouraged to spend a year at Harvard, delivering lectures, or running a course if they wish, they would be a stimulating addition to the College...
...title role of the father. Unlike most of the cast, Salisbury understood that a simple Italian peasant need not be stupid to be rustic. Tom Gervasi, as his son, was properly whining and greedy as the boy who gave away a man's life for a gold watch. Steve Aaron gave a surprisingly believable rendition of the Padre who advises Falcone that God alone should punish...
...Aaron version relies upon the WHRB announcers to portray the on-the-scene announcers, on the assumption that their voices and techniques could best give the "You are there" sensation. Unfortunately, the announcers sound as if they are describing a football game where Harvard is losing, rather than a war in which humanity is being destroyed...
...Aaron's interpretation of the broadcast as having humor is correct, but the script's humor is a very subtle, Wellesian sneer. In the original, the farmer on whose field the first rocket landed was slow and countrived, but in Aaron's he is more of the village idiot...
...there are times when Aaron manages to find and convey the dramatic moments. The reporter describing New York's death by the black gas, James Stinson, has the reserve of an announcer and the sensitivity to horror of the actor. Colgate Salsbury brings a depth and a strength, mingled with pomposity, to the Secretary of the Interior. Eugene Pell does a praiseworthy, although not convincing job as the Princeton professor who watches the Martians with a philosophical eye from the first flourish to the last wriggle...