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...celebrated its 177th anniversary last week (with stateside balls and pageants, with ceremonial "cake cuttings" in Marine messes everywhere), the corps could boast a growing weight of material advantages as well as these inner fires of elan. In the years after World War II, it had parried the persistent attempts of Army brass (including Army Chief of Staff Dwight D. Eisenhower) to whittle the Marines down to units of regimental size. It had hotly argued with critics who maintained that the A-bomb put its amphibious specialty out of business. And finally, amid the Korean emergency...
Capote knows how to capture the universal in the eccentric; and his earlier scenes have a humorous shimmer and elan, as of a story that will move skippingly toward its secret. But the play thereafter cannot evoke its meaning through its mood, or even sustain its mood. It becomes a half-farcical, half-melodramatic vaudeville, and its people finally go home less changed themselves than as though changes of character awaited them there. There is less a failure of logic than of magic, which is the more pronounced since the production-in Virgil Thomson's atmospheric music and Cecil...
...fact, it has nearly everything an operetta should have. It has dancing--ballroom, ballet, and can-can, all done with devastating elan. In particular, the team of Gilrone and Star shone with their smooth pas de deux in the Merry Widow Waltz...
...approval of his administrative bosses of the AEC, most of whom are not scientists. Laboratory morale is good today, but some of the leading U.S. men of science worry about the future, when the AEC may grow to be a clumsy bureaucracy in which the scientific elan will be stifled...
...demands the utmost effort to stimulate trade with the Polar region . . ." An Evening News cartoon pictured ogre-like customs men waiting to pounce on returning travelers. The caption read: "Ready, men? Watch out for French air in the bicycle tires, Swiss mud on the ski boots, Italian sunburn, Continental elan...