Word: expressivity
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Skegness beach with his girl. In the first instance he displays pure boyish enthusiasm, then boyish iconoclasm, then a thoroughgoing experience of love. In each case, the emotion comes through as basic ally right but begrimed in an unhealthy context, which is what the film is trying to express from start to finish. Consistently, Courtenay preserves a delicate equilibrium between sympathy and repulsion; he manages to suggest a worthless hood who might have been a gifted contributor to another society-not a nice chap gone wrong, but rather a congenitally wrong one who might have gone right. Because this sort...
...orchestral music. But with the Western Premiere of the massive, bombastic Twelfth Symphony, the response changed-as if a totally different composer had appeared on the scene. The Twelfth, said the Daily Herald, was a "crash dive into banality." Wrote Critic Noel Goodwin of the Daily Express, noting that the symphony celebrates the October Revolution of 1917: "It is an exhibition of blatant Red flag waving in musical terms. I hope I need never be exposed to it again...
...will launch the $750,000 show on what promises to be one of the longest and farthest-flung tours in the history of painting. Says Company Chairman Herbert F. Johnson: "Our interest in this project might be described as a sort of act of faith in American art." American Express. After its opening at the Milwaukee Art Center on Sept. 21, the show will make a second debut in Vienna in January. The proposed itinerary from then on reads like something out of an American Express folder: Belgrade, Athens, Rome, Monaco, Berlin, Stockholm, Brussels, London, Dublin, Paris, Munich. Overseas booking...
...behind the world's largest rolled earth dam (Oahe: 242 ft. high, 9,300 ft. long). Behind the river rose the brown buttes of South Dakota's cattle country. The President opened his speech to some 9,000 persons with a deeply heartfelt cliche: "I want to express my great pleasure and tell you what a privilege it is to leave Washington these days and come out here." Kennedy had every reason to enjoy being away from Washington: the Democratic Congress was still giving him fits, and the U.S. space lag was apparent...
...entire seven-car train (including three club cars) from several railroads and rolled out of Los Angeles last week in imperial style. Price of the ticket for Gleason, 45 "pals," including six dancing girls and a six-piece Dixieland jazzband aboard what the banners proclaim THE GREAT GLEASON EXPRESS...