Word: casualities
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...film he more than doubled his movie audience in the U.S.-Kwai will probably be seen by at least 50 million Americans, and stands to make more than $20 million. By his intricate, strongly moving portrayal of a British colonel at once stupid and heroic. Guinness repealed the casual popular impression that he is merely a sort of Stan Laurel for the intellectuals, and revealed himself as a dramatic actor of imposing skill and large imagination. U.S. moviemakers were so impressed that last month the Motion Picture Academy named Alec Guinness the best movie actor...
...group, created by Choreographer Igor Moiseyev, 52, onetime soloist and ballet master at the Bolshoi, is only partially concerned with true folk dancing. In the company's history of 160 works are a generous sprinkling of what Moiseyev calls "popular ballets"-works that express contemporary themes in the casual movements of everyday life, a fusion reminiscent of the effect U.S. Choreographer Jerome Robbins achieves in such works as Fancy Free. Even in the straight folk dances Choreographer Moiseyev prunes and shapes his material to gain dramatic continuity and a clearly defined dance line. Says he: "We do not merely...
Died. Claire McCardell, 52, vice president of Manhattan's Townley Frocks, Inc. creator of the casual American Look, "one of the few creative designers this country has produced," according to Dallas' Stanley Marcus; of cancer; in Manhattan...
Praise & Blame. Conductors Ormandy and Reiner are as different in personality as they are in artistic approach. Ormandy maintains a casual attitude toward his men, is quick to praise and slow to blame, has been known to accept suggestions from visiting soloists. Reiner is as tough on visiting artists (a current bitter antagonist: Artur Rubinstein) as on his own men. He rarely forgives an error. When annoyed, he is apt to reduce his always small beat even further, which once prompted a cellist to bring a telescope to rehearsal ("I'm looking for the beat," he explained). "To Reiner...
What I did say to your inquiring reporter as a casual observation in the course of a general discussion of the commuter problem was that Harvard probably could, if it wanted to, find a thousand qualified commuters a generation hence who would be glad to be at Harvard. If in the 1970's we have ten thousand admission candidates a year instead of the present four thousand, we will presumably have to deny admission each year to students as good as at least half of the present Harvard student body. In other words, half of the present readers and editors...