Word: deeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Flesh touched flesh, and the deed at last was done (see cut). "They won't get any propaganda out of that one," said Dulles when he saw the prints. "I look as if I'd swallowed a dose of castor...
...Arabia Talbot found that the oryx a handsome black-and-white antelope is almost extinct because Arabs believe that to kill one is a great deed. In the old days of horses and spears, the feat was reasonably difficult, but today great motorcades of oil-rich princes of Araby chase the oryx across the desert with barbaric howls and the roar of powerful engines. One emir organized a 300-car hunt. Now the oryx has retreated into the Rub' al Khali (empty quarter) of Southern Arabia, where at most 100 survive. Talbot does not think they will survive...
...Hell. The opera, Lucas Foss's Griffelkin, with libretto by Alistair Reid, was offered by the NBC Opera Theater (Sun. 4 p.m.). Griffelkin is a little devil whose tenth-birthday gift is to be sent up to earth to raise a little hell. When he does a good deed, he is banished forever to earth, where he happily becomes, minus tail and horns, a normal small boy. What with a singing letter-box and dancing lions, Griffelkin was in the old operatic tradition. But the music did not sound much more inspired than the book. Most of the time...
...nightmares of such varied and notable personalities as the Queen of Sheba, the Shakespearean expurgator Bowdler, Stalin, Dean Acheson, a modern psychoanalyst, a metaphysician, and an existentialist. Bowdler, or example, dreams that his wife reads a copy of the original Shakespeare, goes mad out of remorse for her dread deed, and is carried off to the asylum, shouting Shakespearean obscenities to the neighbors as the departs...
...ever plunged into Hollywood's always bleeding heart. Furthermore, it is twisted a few times, slowly, just to emphasize the point. The assassin in the case is Clifford Odets, the brilliant playwright (Waiting for Lefty) who lived right and thought left in Hollywood during the '40s. The deed he does here was originally perpetrated as a Broadway play in 1949. As a movie, it is arousing consternation, indignation and malicious delight among some of Hollywood's best people...