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Joan Fontaine's 1948 bid for the Academy Award, "Letter From An Unknown Woman," teeters perilously close to the brink of complete bathos for the better part of two hours, but it never quite falls in. Set in the Vienna of 1900, it concerns the lifelong passion of a pretty girl for a rather stupid young composer, played woodenly by Louis Jourdan. Miss Fontaine gazes lovingly at Jourdan while she is a child, and when she has grown up, runs away from home for a romantic one-night spree with him. He subsequently takes a trip, and after...
April 18 was, in fact, the brink of catastrophe...
...stop him, Coach Barclay will again use defensive handyman Chip Gannon, who helped keep the Eli high-scorer down to 11 points last Saturday. Squad members and Coaches Barclay and Harper viewed movies of the Yale game for a full hour yesterday at the Blockhouse, following a brink defensive workout upstairs...
...total situation-i.e., God's will. But man is unable to understand the total situation except in the finite terms of his immediate situation. "The realization of the relativity of his knowledge subjects him to the peril of skepticism. The abyss of meaninglessness yawns on the brink of all his mighty spiritual endeavors. Therefore man is tempted to deny the limited character of his knowledge, and the finiteness of his perspectives. He pretends to have achieved a degree of knowledge which is beyond the limit of finite life. This is the 'ideological taint' in which...
Violinist Robert Brink had just put his fiddle away after playing Hindemith's Sonata in E at Manhattan's Town Hall, when the Guilet Quartet moved in to play a Hindemith quartet. Next night, in Carnegie Hall, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra marched through his Symphony in E Flat; three blocks away, Ballet Society danced The Four Temperaments-music by Hindemith. Next night, in Carnegie Hall, George Szell put his Cleveland Orchestra through Hindemith's Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes by Weber. The critics, who usually find Hindemith dry as toast, found his Metamorphosis gay and charming. In Boston...