Word: binyon
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...committees down through the years have usually been successful in appointing important artists and scholars, including T.S. Eliot '10, Edwin Muir, e.e. cummings '10, and Octavio Paz literature; Edwin Panovsky and Laurence Binyon in fine arts; R. Buckminster Fuller in architecture; and Aaron Copland and Igor Stravinsky in music. But the committee has also been turned down. It tried to get W.H. Auden one year but he couldn't come. It seems that Auden wanted to come, but he was headed in the opposite direction, toward England. Edmund Wilson also turned down the Norton Chair, apparently because he didn...
...Dorothy L. Sayers, Geoffrey L. Bickersteth and Laurence Binyon have severally translated La Commedia into rhyming tercets, and translated it amazingly well. John D. Sinclair has prepared an excellent edition of La Commedia that offers the original Italian and a faithful prose translation on opposite pages. But for the reader without Italian, the most satisfactory versions are those in blank verse. Lawrence Grant White is both accurate and musical, and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, though his diction is at times antique, presents passages of stunning power and precision. Unfortunately, neither of these is readily available at this writing. In preparing...
...along with other things. Dick Powell is at the megaphone, rather than Capra, and he uses the instrument less as a director should than as he did when he was a baby-faced crooner-to make things loud and corny. Further, the script has been thumbsily rewritten by Claude Binyon, and many of the sly little scenes have been converted into thwacking big musical numbers, set to some remarkably unmusical music. Both of the big names have been replaced by other big names (June Allyson and Jack Lemmon), and the new people give it all they...
...family's efforts to hornswoggle an insurance company out of $20,000 in death benefits, gives Actor David Wayne his first chance to cut loose with the comic talent he displayed in Broadway's Finian's Rainbow and Mister Roberts. With his help, Writer-Director Claude Binyon squeezes enough chuckles out of a series of corpses to make up for a romantic subplot that is dead on its feet...
Mother Don't Tell Me (20th Century-Fox) is a comic elaboration of one of the hard facts of medicine: it's tough to be a doctor's wife. In milking it for laughs, Scripter-Director Claude Binyon manipulates the fact into arrant Hollywood fiction, and too often forces the comedy into farce. But thanks mostly to an ingratiating performance by Dorothy McGuire, the movie passes the time pleasantly...