Word: familiarization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...people at Marlboro feel that such a familiar relationship does not reduced the respect accorded to a man as teacher, for such respect is supposedly based on stronger things than the addition of a "mister" before a name. It would appear, however, that this is true more in the case of the top notch teacher than in that of the less able instructor...
...mood of self-conscious farce with blackouts to end each act, played it with an ill-starred cast. Comedian Ernie Kovacs as Topaze and Carl Reiner as the swindler heightened the effect of a rambling revue skit, did not so much dominate as swamp their roles with their familiar TV personalities. Still, in a medium that mines so much of its comedy from mothers and fathers who know best, even this production of Topaze had the rare virtue of a refreshingly cynical point of view...
...Royal Ballet's performances were worth seeing for the quality of the soloists if not for the imagination of the choreographers. But as always, the company was at its best in the familiar pageantesque fairy-tale fare-Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty-and in a revised and turbulent Petrouchka. Fonteyn & Co. still moved with a cool and stately charm unmatched by any other ballet group seen in the U.S. That seems to be more than enough for U.S. audiences; half a million people who will see the Royal Ballet during its present tour have already bought more than a million...
After Glow (Carmen McRae; Decca LP). Songstress McRae gives a torchy, slickly phrased reading to such old standbys as Nice Work If You Can Get It and My Funny Valentine, and less familiar numbers, e.g., Guess Who I Saw Today? The voice is too anemic for the big, strutting talk, but just right for the languorous, blues-flavored chitchat of a girl who has been there before...
...oldfashioned, almost romantic terms for a highly successful survivor in a political system where the only real treason is to be slower on the draw than the other fellow, the only real heresy to be out of step with the twistings of "historical necessity." Author Maclean traces the fairly familiar but still remarkable facts of Tito's life from his birth (1892) in a tiny Croatian village to his World War I years as a prisoner in Russia and his fighting alongside the Bolsheviks during the Russian civil war. The story continues with Tito's years...