Word: emperor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...academic reign of terror he prompted the first time has not yet worn off. After the Law School's Record, Legal Aid Society and Forum cased controversial students and speakers off their rosters and programs, the U.N. Council now announces that it has relinquished its rights to show The Emperor Jones because, starring as it does Paul Robeson, it is "too controversial." This University has never, like some, banned a film. But it does not even have to consider the problem these days. Student exhibitors are banning them themselves...
...NAACP group had refused the film, they could expect sympathies, since Robeson has proved himself a traitor to the good name of the American Negro. But the U.N. Council presents a particularly lame reason for chickening out of the Emperor. Its exhibition will make them a "partisan" organization, they say, and thus restrict their ability to get UN diplomats as speakers. Disregarding the patent observation that the film's content is as controversial as a baby chick, this argument assumes an incredibly naive view of the UN itself. There are, in fact, few institutions more controversial than the UN. Patriotic...
...binaural, but thanks to the skill and care lavished on both the performances and the recordings, it is some of the finest sound to be heard on records. Cook's first symphonic releases include two potpourris: Masterpieces of the Dance, with such old war horses as the Emperor Waltz and Danse Macabre, and Masterpieces from the Theater, with music from Carmen, La Gazza Ladra and Euryanthe. The major effort is Mozart's Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, which, despite a too-speedy finale, is the best available LP of the great work. All are played...
Five Gentlemen of Japan, by Frank Gibney. A searching book about the Japanese, told around the lives & times of an admiral, a farmer, a newspaperman, a steelworker and the Emperor (TIME, March...
Five Gentlemen of Japan, by Frank Gibney. A searching book about the Japanese, told around the lives & times of an admiral, a farmer, a newspaperman, a steelworker and the Emperor (TIME, March...