Word: davids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Senate, at the urgent demand of Iowa's Bourke B. Hickenlooper, finally took up the confirmation of David E. Lilienthal as chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. The debate was stalled when Ohio's John Bricker, who is against confirmation, proposed a delaying action: have the FBI investigate the loyalty of the commissioners, and let the Atomic Energy Committee do a second screening of AEC's 706 employees...
Bathsheba (by Jacques Deval; produced by Maximilian Becker & Lee K. Holland in association with Sylvia Friedlander) is just an ancient vehicle used to get British Cinemactor James Mason onstage for his first appearance on Broadway. Mr. Mason's performance as King David is an agreeable one, but it far from compensates for Mr. Deval's play...
...retelling the famous Bible story of how David lusted after the beautiful Bathsheba (Pamela Kellino, Actor Mason's wife), seduced her, and then sent her husband Uriah to be killed in battle, Playwright Deval has altered the intense black-&-white of its morality to a sleek Gallic grey. His David is both an evildoer and a decent-minded worldling. Having wronged Uriah, he afterwards tries to set things as right as possible...
...Uriah is a disconcerting, fair-haired innocent-a rigidly idealistic young soldier who takes noble vows and blindly worships his king. David finally concludes that death for Uriah would be infinitely less tragic than disillusionment and marital dishonor...
Harold H. Burbank, David A. Wells Professor of Political Economy, will start off these sessions with a talk on the Economics Department tomorrow evening at 7:15 o'clock...