Word: actes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Iraq is more important than ten Berlins, but the U.S. continues to study Berlin and act as if Khrushchev's "deadline" is something like a bureaucrat's lunch hour and must be taken seriously. Berlin is the deliberate decoy set up by the Communists to distract the U.S. from Iraq. Wait...
Moody, promising Cinemactress Diane (Peyton Place) Varsi, with two husbands behind her at 21, collected her 2½-year-old son Shawn and a wicker suitcase of possessions, flew off to settle in Vermont. Snapped troubled Diane: "I just don't want to act any more. I find it destructive to me. I don't ever plan to return to Hollywood." Hoping otherwise, 20th Century-Fox, which has title to almost five more years of Diane's services, gave her an indefinite leave of absence...
Under the Metropolitan Opera's harsh proscenium lights, the interior of St. Katherine's Church looked sadly tattered. The backdrop sagged, and the huge carved chair from which Walther von Stolzing sings his trial song in the first act of Die Meistersinger was pushed to one side. But out in the cavernous auditorium sat a crowd of invited guests, waiting for another kind of trial song. The occasion: the Met's first public talent audition...
...existence. Often in the modern western a sudden sympathy flashes between hero and villain, as though somehow they feel themselves to be secret sharers in a larger identity. Often the hero cannot bring himself to kill the villain until fate forces his hand, and then he performs the act almost like a religious sacrifice (Shane...
...unappeased appetite for public office, is a chronic squawk of static. Each time Perennial Candidate Daly runs for mayor of Chicago or President of the U.S., he shrilly demands his full free share of the air waves.* By law he has it coming: Section 315 of the Communications Act, the so-called "equal time" provision, requires a broadcasting station to give any political candidate as much time as it gives any other-as Daly knows full well. Last week Lar Daly's insistence had radio and television newsmen across the country in a stew and the President...