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...remarks about acting go into a problem of the screen actor which does not trouble the stage actor, to the same extent, one which the Method can help to solve. Development of the unity of a role is extremely difficult when the role, as seen by the final spectator, consists of an edited sequence of camera shots. The elements of the role may have been shot over a period of weeks or months; dialogues may have been filmed with the actor's opposite absent; a single speech may consist of sections from several day's filming; the actor's performance...
...Instead, the 90-odd instrumentalists who attend Marlboro every summer pay $500 apiece for their six-week stay, split up into informal quartets, quintets, or chamber orchestras, depending on what music they want to play. The public concerts are never planned more than a day or two in advance, consist of pieces the resident musicians have chosen by putting their nominations in the suggestion...
...modifications will consist of adding new strength to the engine nacelles, whose weakness was the plane's basic flaw, and to the wings. Lockheed will add strengthening attachments to the mount that supports the engine and to the structure that holds the mount to the wing. The wing will get new, tougher planks (lengthwise strips) and be otherwise stiffened by new bracing. The fixes will make the nacelles and wings "fail-safe," i.e., prevent the failure of any part from affecting the whole wing structure. American Airlines, which will sign the first contract, expects modifications of its fleet...
...second lecture of the Thursday series will consist of a lecture on "The Problem of Communist China" by Michael Lindsay, Professor of Far Eastern Studies at the School of International Service at the American University. It will be held this afternoon at 3 p.m. in Burr...
...floors consist of 100 cells in a double row of matchboxes-one to a monk. Each is a narrow, barely furnished room of white granular cement applied with a high-pressure hose; each is 7 ft. 5 in. high (Corbusier's standard human measure-the height of a man with his arms raised); each has its own balcony, separated from its neighbor by solid concrete partitions. Monks reach their cells from the lower floors by means of a corridor with walls that grow increasingly somber as the men approach their devotional solitude...