Word: acted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...credit side, and almost worth the price of admission, is Johann Strauss's delightful score, notably the famed Treasure Waltz, a melting Act II love duet, and plenty of Hungarian themes, both martial and melancholy. Another plus: Designer Rolf Gérard's brilliant costumes and sets, particularly a Viennese throne room almost handsome enough to bring back the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. Heavily on the minus side are a preposterous libretto, not aided by Translator Maurice Valency's English lyrics, and Cyril Ritchard's uncertain direction...
Asked about the National Defense Education Act, he asserted that Boston University's stand was "wiser' than Harvards outright rejection of government funds. B.U. has permitted students to participate in the loan program for one more year, "giving Congress a chance to work things out," he said. McCormack evaded questions concerning the fate of any bill in the next Congress which called for repeal of the loyalty affidavit requirement...
...special merit. "Stones in the street," Curtis explained last week, "may be millions of years old, but you can't sell them as art." Undaunted, the Folio family consulted one Charles di Renzo, owner of an electrical-supply store in nearby Rosemead, who made a deal to act as the Folios' "agent." Di Renzo and his brother Jay called in Amadore Porcella, an enthusiastic authenticator described as a Vatican art expert. Porcella ticked seven of them off as a Caravaggio, a Lotto, a Tintoretto, and some assorted smaller fry. (In Rome last week he denied that...
...argues Russell, cannot provide a man with a set of ethical beliefs. Russell does not even claim to know why he himself believes in the virtue of free inquiry, though logic can tell him the implications of such a belief: "If, for example, it is held that one should act with honesty, then this does not depend on the size, shape or color of those with whom one happens to be dealing. In this sense, then, the ethical problem gives rise to the conception of the brotherhood of man. It is a view first stated explicitly in the ethical doctrine...
...cigar-chomping, big daddy, who likes life too much to bother dying, Orson Welles is the quality part of an only fair production. Welles is Welles, and one is willing to sit through the film two or three times, just to hear him talk like an inebriated bullfrog and act like a bulldog in heat...