Word: eisenstein
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since he has often been classed with such cinematic originators as Griffith, Eisenstein and Chaplin, Director De Sica is a moviemaker to be taken seriously. Actually, some of his scenes do suggest Chaplin's mixture of airy charm and down-to-earth bluntness. But thus far, he seems to be merely a clever craftsman with a great facility for squirting clear drops of sentiment into every shadow, gesture and cobblestone. The Bicycle Thief pictures the seamy side of life with no more reality than the average Hollywood movie shows the shiny side...
Senior singles (30-Minute men; i.e., men who have rowed four miles in less than 30 minutes), 4:15--J. T. Potter 1 G.B., P. S. Heller '48, J. C. Eisenstein 4G, and J. L. Eldredge 3G.S.D...
...playwrights, who choose to show the "healthy joy of the common people instead of the introspection of Czarist novelists." He noted the freedom of expression as well as variety and genius of theatrical experiment that mark the current Moscow stage, and spoke at length on the work of Serge Eisenstein as an important fence in the cinema...
Prokofiev and Khachaturian promptly adopted the Eisenstein line, confessed, and promised to behave. Eisenstein could not help them further. The day before the Central Committee's music decree was published, Eisenstein slipped out of the Committee's control: he died...
Died. Sergei M. Eisenstein, 49, Russia's brilliantly inventive cinema genius (Potemkin, Ivan the Terrible, Alexander Nevsky); of a heart ailment; in Moscow (see FOREIGN NEWS). Hobbled by Communist doctrines of "art," especially in his last years, he made little protest, even though his own great talents were emasculated by the state's demands...