Word: facings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...patter. And winning as his patter can be-not least his account of the London theater season of 1546-it might prove wearisome were it not for his superb technique: the lines he throws away, the jokes he holds his nose at, the changes of pace, the changes of face, the alarming sounds in his throat. If Flanders' way is to be sinuous, mocking and charming, Swann's way is to play everything straight, then suddenly seem straight out of Edward Lear. He is as repressed and colorless as a don, then as vaultingly mad as Don Quixote...
...raising the blinds on the unconscious, and expressionism opening a crazy-shaped door on the unrealistic, O'Neill grew bolder in his broodings-and more confused. In The Great God Brown, his psychological quarry was the split personality, his technical gimmick the use of masks. Turning a masked face to the world, Dion Anthony (Fritz Weaver) seems Panlike, violent, blasphemous, sexually magnetic. Without his mask, Anthony quivers and quakes, is reverent toward God and repellent to women. Dion's school friend Billy Brown (Robert Lansing) grows up decent and successful but frustrated. He envies Dion's personality...
...with one another. The use of masks has visual value; the sudden shifts in character and the transference of personality have theatrical force. But the conflicts that concerned O'Neill are among the eternal conflicts of stage drama. They are more rewarding when the audience must distinguish the face from the mask, or when the two are not easily distinguishable. Theatrical without being dramatic, O'Neill created men with two profiles but without any face...
...forward torpedo room of Archerfish were Commander (Medical Corps) George Bond, 43, and Chief Engineman Cyril Tuckfield, 38. Dr. Bond wore nothing but swimming trunks, face mask, a Mae West life vest and a pressure gauge on his wrist. Tuckfield carried a small additional item: a nose clip of rubber-padded steel. They clambered into Archerfish's tiny forward escape hatch and dogged down the door, cutting themselves off from the rest of the submarine. Over UQC came the word: all set. Penguin's skipper, Lieut. Commander George Enright, began a six-minute countdown...
...hearing of the House Special Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight had not lasted long before a picture emerged from memory and began to dominate the scene. It was a picture of a tall, handsome young man in the isolation booth, his face contorted with mental effort, his lips muttering a kind of private stream-of-consciousness through which he tried to find the answers to Twenty One's difficult questions. Bearer of a distinguished name, Charles Van Doren (TIME cover, Feb. n, 1957) had seemed the finest product of American education, character, family background and native intelligence. Could...