Word: charm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Essentially, Russell's Utopia is a strongly determinist Garden of Eden where knowledge is virtue and no one has enough free will to choose to do evil. Russell is not unaware of the serpents of danger in the world, but he offers to charm them with never-never tunes that have become more conventional than convincing: 1) world government; 2) world prosperity 3) worldwide birth control; 4) more individual initiative and decentralization of economic and political power...
Since the Rossini work has been on tour since last year, it runs with amazing case and pace. The Marriage production, still new, has not yet acquired the same polish, but both provide evenings of operatic charm all too rare in Boston...
...each day of 1954 slipped by, I could not help but appreciate more and more the ability of TIME'S Man of the Year, Mr. Dulles. I was not only amazed by his international adroitness, but at his physical stamina, mental alertness, patience and charm. This man truly is deserving of the distinction you have given...
...mission against the bridges at Toko-ri. And death it is, though for all too long the audience is teased with the hope of a sentimental save and the chance to see Holden reunited with his wife (Grace Kelly, who does what little her part permits with charm and sensibility...
...most of them super-duper production numbers. Among the performers: Rosemary Clooney, Gene Kelly, Jane Powell, Vic Damone, Cyd Charisse, Howard Keel, Tony Martin. All the same, 132 minutes of spectacle is more than any audience can comfortably watch, and it takes all of Ferrer's electric charm and versatility to keep the moviegoer looking at the screen...