Word: dore
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Sunrise at Campobello (by Dore Schary) extends from Aug. 10, 1921 to June 26, 1924-from the day that Franklin Delano Roosevelt was stricken with polio to the moment when he rose, at the Democratic National Convention in Madison Square Garden, to nominate Al Smith for President. The interval between represents a catastrophe in F.D.R.'s life out of which he forged a victory; it has thus all the contours of the classically beleaguered hero. In addition, Sunrise at Campobello offers the classic motif of external pressures, with F.D.R.'s imperious mother wanting her crippled son, by returning...
...Dore Schary's new play succeeds both as drama and history. Dealing with Franklin Roosevelt's poliomyelitis attack, his recuperation, and his return to political prominence, Sunrise at Campobello not only relates the facts of this most striking of political careers, but also demonstrates real growth in several characters...
...hills (opposite), and of old Rip's return after a 20-year sleep of enchantment to find his house silent and deserted (see overleaf), are as classic as the story. They have nothing in common with the works of the great French illustrator Gustave Dore, or with the Englishmen Cruikshank and Tenniel, except genius. In the U.S., no other illustrator ever achieved such a poignant mingling of psychological truth and natural mystery. Perhaps even more than Washington Irving's tale the pictures tell the weird swiftness of human life...
Enter Senary; Exit Mayer. But even Mayer turned out to be vulnerable. In 1948 he startled Hollywood by handing over production of M-G-M films to onetime Scriptwriter Dore Schary. The two soon clashed over the proper themes for the studio's pictures. Finally the old man quit MGM, talked vaguely of again making pictures that "you can take your mother and children...
Three Weeks of Penance. A typical French spa is Mont-Dore, in central France. There, every morning, patients with respiratory trouble bustle out of 275 summer villas and 80 hotels and pensions to queue up at the doors of the fountain pavilion. Each curist carries his own graduated glass, which attendants fill to the proper mark with tepid, slightly bubbly, radioactive water. After a gargle or a swig, the patient sits in a tub of water for 25 minutes while compressed air is forced up, gets a massage, wades into a thick fog of water particles, finally inhales some vapors...