Word: dispiritedness
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Bress's hopeful theory is that most people can read music or that they can at least "get the pattern." The combination of sound and score is particularly essential in the performance of modern music, Bress believes, to convince bewildered audiences that "they are not being hoodwinked and that...
Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida," which officially opened the Loeb Drama Center on Saturday evening, is a long, ambiguous, dispirited play that professionals can hardly cope with. It is, I suspect, outside the range of amateurs. Although they can and do go through the motions of telling a story with...
The one Iraqi party that supports Kassem's home and foreign policies without giving allegiance either to Cairo or to Moscow is the National Democratic Party. Since last summer the National Democrats have been fighting a fierce battle with the Communists for the loyalties of Iraqi farmers. The Communists...
Such a sombre theme is brilliantly projected by Laurence Harvey as the questionable hero and Simone Signoret as his worldly and dispirited mentor. Both make the most of their important relationship, reacting to each other with a sensitivity that escapes the impersonality of the screen. Their love affair seems dramatically...
Wingate's influential friends helped him fight back with an Appeal to King George VI, but the issue vanished with the outbreak of World War II. Wingate, as a guerrilla specialist, was ordered to Ethiopia, and he embraced that nation and its exiled Emperor Haile Selassie as fiercely as...