Word: brilliantly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...impales conscious and unconscious, willing and unwilling behavior. There are dozens of moments in the play with a power to inform, or shock, or dismay, that wholly shrivel mere theatrical make-believe; and as Artie and Judd, Roddy McDowall and, even more, Dean Stockwell, give brilliant performances. But the dozens of moments are not cumulative. Except as a history of a master-and-slave relationship, of an Artie who, devoid of normal feeling, must subsist on diseased sensation, and a Judd slowly driven by sexual feeling into becoming Artie's companion in evil-except, in other words, for what...
...stain of "lies and bluff" spreading across France and the French army as its three-year-old war of "pacification" in Algeria gradually becomes a degrading massacre of the innocents on both sides. The man who hurls this "J'accuse," Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, 33, is the brilliant editor of the liberal weekly L'Express and an ex-braintruster of the Mendes-France regime. To a six-month volunteer stint in 1956 as an active reserve officer in Algeria, he brought a young man's sharp nose for injustice and strong palate for raw truths...
...heart of the play. Yet Jordan has excellence; when he underplays, he is usually most persuasive, and in the voicing of passionate or solemn crucial passages, e.g. the line "Homes for human beings," he is outstanding. Even if Jordan is not a complete master builder, he is often brilliant, and nearly always forceful...
...that I am very pleased with the review of the Casals film would be putting it mildly. I suddenly realize that the "source" of this film-river was TIME, Jan. 30, 1950, which carried not only a glowing review of The Titan under CINEMA, but also a brilliant account in the Music section called "The Exile of Prades." This piece ended with a quote from Casals, ". . .someone must remember," and I was made to remember. I quickly wrote a treatment for a documentary feature film on Casals, but it never came off. In the course of promoting...
...figures of the Eisenhower Administration, Arthur Larson was the only one to ride to political fame on a book. Larson, brilliant Rhodes scholar and onetime dean of the University of Pittsburgh Law School, published A Republican Looks at His Party when serving as an efficient but little-known Under Secretary of Labor. Ike read the book while recovering from his ileitis operation, was impressed by Larson's carefully reasoned thesis that "New Republicanism" was the wave of the political future, that New Deal Democrats were as out of tune with the times as William McKinley. After his recovery...