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Stray Dog, made in 1949 by Japanese Director Akira Kurosawa, is a less expert thriller but a deeper movie than his recent High and Low. Both are cops-and-robbers chase films, starring Toshiro Mifune. But the older work, aglow with zest and freshness, displays abundantly two qualities of Kurosawa's ripening genius: the ability to make moving pictures move, and an aching compassion for his fellow...
...Concert show musicians levitating through clouds of charcoal. His bronze bas-reliefs have ragged edges as if these too were shards from some ancient temple Faces peer and hands pry through the surface as if trying to poke through to heaven. Although cast in medieval garb and aglow with the epicurean colors of Rembrandt, the art of David Aronson merely stages modern problems in ancient dress. What Aronson pictures is mans effort to cast aside his graven image, discard his mask of duplicity He has succeeded where few contemporaries have even dared to try in marrying today's religious...
...Fine Arts headed by James Johnson Sweeney, and a symphony orchestra whose current conductor is Sir John Barbirolli. But the city has not lost its frontier character. "There is freedom of movement here that I have not seen anywhere else," says a recent arrival. Says a Houston oil executive, aglow with civic pride:."This is the last frontier...
Such evenings leave audiences aglow with delight and thundering applause, and Wolfgang basking in a sense of his mission. "We have found a new way of presenting organ music," he said, steering his van down the empty Autobahn. "My shop has become just a hobby; music is now my profession...
Navy Secretary by F.D.R. Byrd had campaigned for Roosevelt, was all aglow at the money-saving promises of the New Deal platform. The glow quickly faded. Byrd recalls the disenchantment: "The first bill I voted for was to preserve the federal solvency, to cut federal expenses 15% across the board. That was the way to do things, and I was all for Roosevelt on things like that. But then this fellow Keynes got hold of him." Soon Byrd was leading the Senate opposition to the AAA, TVA, NRA-and when Roosevelt tried to pack the Supreme Court, Byrd knew that...