Word: elan
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...early works, disenchantment flickers at the edges of gaiety, and in Germany perhaps it seems the dignifying element of his work. Though Darmstadt re-creates his musiquettes with utter fidelity, the result is sometimes closer to strudel than soufflé. The orchestra plays impeccably, but without the elan that Paris gave to Offenbach, and he to it. Though every seat at every performance is filled with beaming burghers, the cancan line has not a single roguish wink for admiring males. Darmstadt is well pleased nonetheless. Landestheater Director Hering said last week that he plans to revive two more Offenbach works...
...which an individual's personality is still able to make itself felt within the System. A House gains for allowing the Master to impose some portion of his personality upon its organization and upon the choice of students admitted to that House. A House gains from the greater elan of its residents when they have carefully, even agonizingly selected that House themselves. But, confined by distribution quotas required by the University, the subjective elements can wield only small influence. They can be only small oases in a desert of mechanical necessities. But a desert without any oases...
...with admirable elan...
...setting by Debbie Samson conveys an atmosphere suitable only to the Shakespearean segment, but Paul Pietz's lighting contributes to the general professional elan of the production...
...however, the deep-revolving, witty Mankiewicz fails most where most he hoped to succeed. As drama and as cinema, Cleopatra is raddled with flaws. It lacks style both in image and in action. Never for an instant does it whirl along on wings of epic elan; generally it just bumps from scene to ponderous scene on the square wheels of exposition. Part of what is wrong went wrong in the cutting room, and for that Darryl Zanuck, boss of 20th Century-Fox, is possibly to blame. But much of what is wrong was wrong in the script, and for that...