Word: ballets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Omnibus (Sun. 5 p.m., CBS). The Antonio Spanish Ballet Company...
...principal characters, set against a ballet-like background of black-suited functionaries running back and forth across the screen, are somewhat unreal, as those in fantasy should be. But they seem to enjoy living in the world M. Clair has made for them. After a drunken dinner, for instance, the materialist exudes enthusiasm as he pelts his own portrait with wine glasses. In short Clair has shown that there are pleasanter ways to criticize the advances of modern technology than through the grim didacticism of an Orwellian nightmare...
...Most were hoping to be shocked, for the yearning to startle and shock has infused much of Cocteau's gaudy swoopings, soarings and occasional pancake landings among the lively arts. The value of surprise was brought home to Cocteau one day 40 years ago, when the ballet impresario Diaghilev turned a coolly monocled eye on Cocteau and quieted his cocky babble of witticisms with a curt "Astonish me!" To astonish, Cocteau has since dabbled furiously, rebelliously and often brilliantly in every branch of the arts and senses (he tried opium briefly, and then religion, also briefly). He has been...
...raked autumn leaves, wandered around Gloucester harbor as fishermen mended nets. There were vivid contrasts between the chasm of the Grand Canyon and the topless towers of Rockefeller Center, the swaying wheat fields of Nebraska and the money-conscious hubbub of the Texas State Fair, an underwater ballet from Florida and the overwater speed trials of Donald Campbell's jet racer at Arizona's man-made Lake Mead...
...breaks his long workday by getting home as soon after 5 as possible, taking a shower and a nap before dinner. Page and his wife (a former ballet dancer, author of a promising 1953 novel, The Bracelet) have two sons, 13 and 16. At college (Cornell '21), Page used to play "the long-necked banjo" to help pay his tuition. Now he has gone hifi, playing Mahler and Sibelius, while he gets in two or three more hours of medical reading or writing after dinner. Bedtime...