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...forward line of Larry Ekpebu, Tom Bernheim, Rog Tuckerman, Captain Jim Shue, and Ken McIntosh harassed the Princeton defense all afternoon, passing even through the bog in a style that if repeated will easily beat Brown and Yale...
...nations in the world (some $43 million for fiscal 1957), but because its economy is so primitive, Laos has practically no trained personnel to administer it. It was a situation marked for trouble, and last week the trouble had become acute. U.S. aid to Laos has fallen into a bog of misdirected effort, diverted profits and squeeze...
Like so many other stories about boys growing up, The Young Stranger could easily have slipped into a bog of sentimentality and muddy emotions. But the skill of the actors, of director John Frankenheimer, and particularly of writer Robert Dozier saves the tone of the picture every time. For example, when the mother explains to the boy that his father really does care for him, Dozier finds way to make such a statement fully convincing. "Your father," she says very quietly, "once told me that you are the only thing in the world he really loves...
...material covered can be geared to the individual preferences of each man or woman. Often teachers have no definite outline, when they begin their course. And although there is much to be said in favor of this system, there is always the danger that the work will tend to bog down in a particular area, leaving some material to be covered in a very sketchy fashion...
...Gogh cuts off his ear; and finally the shadowy deathbed scene, in which the painter's death is announced by the offstage firing of a revolver and by the slow illumination of his paintings, ranged about the dark walls like sun-filled windows. Although the opera tends to bog down in a weary series of recitatives, the choral writing is marked by a lush, dark-hued beauty, and the hectic orchestral writing is daubed with great splashes of instrumental color as dazzling and at times as savage as Van Gogh's own swirling canvases. A critical success...