Word: artes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Earl Montgomery, as Doctor Stockmann, has much of the bearing of a "matinee idol," and appears much younger than his wife, admirably portrayed by Lois Holmes. Art Smith, as Morton Kiil, presents a striking portrait of her shrewd and disreputable father. Gene Frankel's direction is adept and certain touches are superb. Yet with the children, who add more distraction than depth, his direction is spotty and they generally dash onstage with a gust, then settle into the shadows to await their lines...
...colors of the rainbow. In Watteau, love and laughter blend into one. To round the gallery corner to Goya's Two Prisoners in Irons can be like taking a header off a cliff. Unlike the monster-painters, whose malformed "images of man" are the latest art fad (TIME, Sept. 7), Goya made the victims of inhumanity-in this case, obviously a chained father and son-touching by the simplicity of their unadorned humanity. Instead of titillating the mind with sadistic fantasies, Francisco Goya dizzies the heart with cruel fact...
...suggestion had a middle-of-the-cocktail-party logic: Why not have a quadripartite whiskey festival, featuring Canada, Scotland, the U.S. and Ireland? "There are international conferences, congresses, and conclaves for most of man's endeavors, enjoyments, and art forms; except whiskey. And we (The Whiskey Distillers of Ireland) have often wondered...
...museums, they are the worst-organized, the worst-hung in Italy-a scandal, as the Florentines say themselves, with a certain civic pride." With these strictures out of the way, there begins a portrait of former glories and calamities that combines a meticulous observation of the past and the art that has outlived it with some of the year's most readable prose...
Ford Startime (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). The Secret World of Kids, as portrayed by secret kids of all ages from Art Linkletter to a chimpanzee named Jerry...