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...minute composition began with a spine-tingling run on the clarinet, launched into a satire of suburban domestic strife with a jazzy Greek chorus, pantomime action and modern musical effects. Lennie's libretto, in which his unhappily married couple climaxed a day of frustration by going to an escapist movie, was a little too real to be funny. One listener summed it up: "It didn't take Bernstein to show that they were mismated...
...cast of characters (e.g., Colonel Blimp, the trade-union workhorse, the escapist ostrich) which have helped make him the world's top political satirist, Low has added a tousle-haired, bewildered character called World Citizen. Said Strip-Father Low: World Citizen is an "ordinary fellow in contact with the difficulties and absurdities of the present day . . . contentious world." World Citizen is a young man who wears only a raincoat ("It would be all the better to draw him naked-life in the raw, you know"), no shoes ("He can't afford them"). He runs up against such absurdities...
Night into Morning (MGM) unintentionally serves as a fine argument for the escapist entertainment that Hollywood makes best. It is a grim, dolorous movie about a college English professor (Ray Milland) who loses his wife and child in an explosion and searches for a way to go on living without them. He broods endlessly over the tragedy, finds no solace either in drink or in the advances of a tart (Jean Hagen), finally is brought to face life again through the efforts of an understanding friend (Nancy Davis), whose concern over him almost alienates her fiance (John Hodiak...
Student reactions to the proposed 15 percent hike in room rents and the porter plan varied from "unfortunate but necessary" to "it's a ridiculous, escapist plot," in a CRIMSON sampling taken last night...
...bull was hot on La Pulga's heels, but at the last moment its mood turned out to be escapist rather than combative. Girl and bull reached the top of the fence together, then looked at each other in understandable surprise. Angelina changed her mind and dropped back. The bull went on over, but was later driven out to be killed by one of Angelina's colleagues...