Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sake? But Callas' singing, remarkable as it is, accounts for only part of her impact. To the unregenerate art of operatic acting, she brings a powerful personality. It shows in the expressive toss of her head as she trills some word less coloratura, in the dramatic contrast of her long white fingers spread against a jet-black robe, in the sudden change in her face as, in mid-song, a new thought crosses her mind. She listens with a special intentness while others sing to her-although it is a question whether the pain that sometimes touches her brow...
...complete contrast was the style of Bernard Ocko, a professional violinist now the concert master for the "Pipe Dream" orchestra. Ocko played a series of short pieces with a rich, sweet tone and a great use of violin effects, such as harmonics and double stops. Two of the pieces he played, Adagic and Lullabyc were his own; they were written in the Romantic idiom, showed a pleasant knowledge of melodic style, and surely would be successful in an Hungarian Restaurant...
...contrast to his gay, decorative painting, O'Hara's subjects are somber. They express tragedy and pain. The Harlequins, flying kites in Number 13 appear to be receiving stigmata, driven into their bodies by the kite ropes. Other figures are running away, pleading, weeping, or lost in contemplation. When O'Hara succeeds in his composition he intensifies the isolation of his subjects...
Brando is the revolutionary tiger, an uneducated animal of the soil, yet his dedication to the peasants' cause is beautifully expressed. In bold contrast to Brando's passionate sincerity, Kazan develops the black-draped figure of Fernando as the cratic zealot of any war--the traitor who with no devotion to either side, with no goal other than rebellion and death. Joseph Wiseman fulfills this role with a calm fanaticism, breaking his shell of assurance with sudden bursts of excitement. Zapata's brother is equally reckless, but Anthony Quinn plays the part in an amusing swagger, lifting skirts as easily...
...stress is placed upon the quality and acuteness of the mind, Siegfried said. "People of these lands see deeply into things as they actually are, not as we would desire them to be," he "But these countries," he continued, "have not been transformed by the Industrial Revolution, and, in contrast to Anglo-Saxon peoples, their economy is still based upon individual producers such as the small farmer and the vine-yard owner...