Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most of his contemporaries, to Western influence and a Western audience, Saito lately visited ancient Kyoto to recapture special Japanese qualities he feels his works lack, ruefully muses: "We have lost our Japanese origins. I keep on going to Kyoto to try to rediscover them." But to a Western eye, his origins are unmistakable and inimitable...
...violence, has seen more of history than most men, and recorded so much of it that immunity to ordinary feeling might seem a natural result. But his time, too, has come to write, and he has put pen to paper with simple eloquence in More Than Meets the Eye, a book that underscores his camera work with emotions that many a more practiced writer would find difficult to control...
...Magician (Svensk Filmindustri; Janus) is the latest public fantasy of Sweden's famed Writer-Director Ingmar Bergman, whose last two exports to the U.S.. Wild Strawberries and The Seventh Seal, won hosannas in the art houses. Like them, The Magician pleases the eye and agitates the mind. But drifting with its phantasms is no easy matter, and many a moviegoer is likely, instead, to drift right out of the theater...
MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE (310 pp.) -Carl Mydans-Harper...
...more" here than meets the eye may sometimes verge on the sentimental. But no combat soldier will think for a moment that this quota of sentimentality is unusual. It was often a saving grace, and so Mydans uses it. He can remember the day when, boarding the U.S.S. Enterprise in 1940, he, as a photographer, was sent below with the enlisted men, while his companions, writers, were berthed in "officers' country." Today, even if the same discrimination were still being practiced, Writer Mydans could move in with his fellow writers...