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...indulge in the luxury of leisurely expression, whereas the film is at the mercy of the speeding celluloid that cannot turn back, dwell or diverge. The novel can give pages to the description of minutes and skip over years in a sentence; but while a film can dismiss time, it cannot expand it or hold it back to examine it in many facets. "A novel has three tenses, a film has only one." Perhaps the most important part of the book is the highly compact and abstruse discussion of the nature of time in the two media, and the difference...
Ibsen is one of drama's towering master builders. Yet many who admit this dismiss him as excellent for his time, but valuable now only as an admitted period-piece; they cite Doll's House and Ghosts. But they forget that Ibsen in his younger days wrote a sprawling, grandiose work that is timeless: Peer Gynt. And that Ibsen in his maturity wrote a far tighter master-piece whose power is equally timeless: The Master Builder. The HDC choice of a play could not have been better...
Examiner George A. Downing ruled that Kohler must take back strikers whose jobs were not filled by June 1, 1954-even if it has to lay off non-union employees to make room for them. Under the Taft-Hartley Law, a company cannot dismiss workers who strike against unfair labor practices. On June 1, 1954, said Downing. Kohler began defying that provision; it raised non-strikers' pay without consulting the U.A.W., later fired 143 strikers and refused to bargain with the union over the dismissals...
...found it attractive in everything from U.S. dollars to neckties and the flashy Ford Thunderbird and Mercedes-Benz sports cars in which he liked to hot-rod it along Thailand's highways and byways. In the tinseled and temple-dotted capital of Bangkok, Westerners liked to dismiss Pibul as just another crooked politician. But he was much more than that...
Presented throughout the dock area twice a year for the past two years, the morality plays have become an East End institution. By their charities, austere life and hard work, the Anglican Franciscans have impressed East Enders, who at first were apt to dismiss them as so many practitioners of the "soul racket." But the East End is still overwhelmingly unchurched. To Father Oswald the plays' purpose is the same one that sent 15th century Christians into England's streets to perform the classic morality play Everyman (in which God dispatches Death to demand an immediate "rekenynge" from...