Word: exterior
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...whom reactions are always strong and most often favorable, the majority opinion holds that his intense and nearly formidable exterior is the true earnest of a lively and curious intellect, and that his seeming dogmatism and frank outspokeness is rather an extremely moral and courageous statement of opinion for its own sake. According to one of his former students, he will often take a point as the devil's advocate, in order to stimulate discussion and thinking. And he is always willing to shift his opinion in those rare cases in which he is bested. Asked whether he views teaching...
...approach to the play is impressive, largely for its ambition. And it is ambitious, because it demands much from the actors. They must speak Shakespeare's lines with more than usual clarity so that the poet's imagery may work its intended effect on the audience and replace the exterior picture of a modern set. Added to that, of course, are the difficulties which the dimensions of the play itself presents to any group of actors...
...early scenes she captures perfectly the spirit of the young girl, and later also manages to show her growth into maturity. The script prevents Henry Fonda from indicating the paralled development within Pierre Bezuhov, and so he is forced to work with his character's huge and clumsy exterior. But Fonda too possesses a lot of talent, and he demonstrates just how much of an art an actor, naturally trained to move smoothly, can make of moving without grace. The least satisfactory of the starring trio is Mel Ferrer, who displays more stiffness than grandeur. As portrayed by Oscar Homolka...
...First Prize in the architectural competition fared no better. It was nothing short of scandalous to award the prize to Eero Saarinen's Chapel at M.I.T. for "the strongest statement in terms of structure and space enclosure for its purpose." Although the interior has many praiseworthy features, the exterior is one of the chief eyesores of Cambridge--an ugly brick storage tank with foully proportioned arches set into it (see cut). Compare with it, for example, the Mexico City church erected several years earlier and shown in the other cut. The basic idea (which Saarinen thought original with...
...furniture. (His mother lives on the back lot in a sleek modern house he designed to fit her favorite, handloomed, 25-ft.-long Finnish rug.) In cutting away a section of one wall to throw light on the main stairway of his old house, Saarinen has made the exterior what he considers "better Victorian than ever." The garage has been converted into a joint study, where Eero, working over his drafting table at night, glances up frequently to see Aline chewing up pencils over her writing...