Word: conscious
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...continent slowly being moulded to the ideals of Hollywood," he wrote. "These things are only the surface froth that gets whipped about by the winds of publicity. Underneath there is the great solid sea of an American nation as simple in its aspirations, as traditional in its virtues, as conscious of its high destiny as any there has ever been in the old world...
...proved-once more-that the wonders of nature are far more effective than man-made TV wizardry. Choice shots: the seething surface of the sun, sunspots in action, the aurora borealis, the sun, in eclipse, with its corona. Given a straighter, less condescending narrative and less self-conscious showmanship, Bell's slick new series can prove a bright shuttle between TV's need to entice and its assumed obligation to inform...
...pseudo--or "sham"--Bohemian can only be regarded as a lost one. Perhaps his perversity is in a masochistic love for Bohemia's punishment. He will never be a real Bohemian because some day he will return to class-conscious society. In Mr. Brunner's athletic terms, he is indeed "a fake quick kick" against a society which will one day welcome him back as a Prodigal...
...Asherman, has given the play a vivacious production. All acting honors go to Patricia Guest (Aurora), a lovely young lady who displays all the stupidity, vanity, and carnality the role demands. Edward Thommen, who frequently directs shows at Poets', recovers early from a shaky start, where he seems self-conscious as the Victorian dandy, to exude high humor in the finale which he plays behind a stunning make-up job. Others in the cast include Catherine Huntington, Gail Kepner, Robert Leibacher, and John Coe. The last act set, the California patio scene, is designed with a real satirical flavor...
...Sunny Jim. Britain's Sir Pierson Dixon. though quietly effective behind the scenes, is a careworn Leslie Howard in appearance. Most impressive of the big-power delegates is broad-shouldered, faultlessly tailored Henry Cabot Lodge. Forceful but no longer overbearing, Lodge has grown on the job. The gallery-conscious dramatics and freewheeling Capitol Hill political habits which he brought with him when he first came to the U.N. have largely disappeared, and ever since the beginning of the Mideast crisis he has shown himself an able tactician, dispassionate and generally diplomatic. Last week he succeeded in keeping...