Word: finer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decayed, a vital new talent has emerged: Federico Fellini. Last summer La Strada (The Road) revealed him to U.S. audiences as an artist of uncertain means but of startling sensibility. Vitelloni, completed in 1953, a year before La Strada, secured Fellini's fame in Europe. It is a finer piece of work than La Strada in every way. Technically, it is an elegant exercise in cinematic diction. Literarily, it is a murderous satire curiously infused with tenderness for the thing it destroys...
...Msgr. McGlinchey based his stand on religious principles, the action was both his privilege and duty. But there is no such excuse for Dr. Dennis Haley, Boston's Superintendent of School, who not only praised the ban, but that going steady "robs the youngster of one of the finer experiences of growing up--the friendship and companionship of as wide a circle of acquaintances of both sexes as possible." This argument was stated more succinctly by Harvard sociologist George C. Homans who said, "A man gets a much better education playing the field...
...fashionable Ars elegante. Other expressionists like Kollowitz and Kokoschka remained true to the original inspiration. "Woman with Dead Child" is Kollowitz at her best struggling with the broad rhythms of suffering. Unfortunately the "Portrait of Else Heims" in its cartoon-like simplicity doesn't do justice to the finer, more nervous insight of Kokoschka...
Most of the cast seemed infected by the professor's indiscretions, overdoing the broadest points, throwing away the few finer ones. Sylvia Stahlman (Eurydice) had the prettiest voice, at its best in The Old Time Religion ("Bacchus my king, O let's be romantic"), and Hiram Sherman (Jupiter) hammed his part happily, right down to losing his hula skirt. Musico-medienne Paula Laurence was the most professional of all as Miss P. (for Public) Opinion, "a vestal virgin with a bachelor's degree." Her message: break as many commandments as you please, except for "Thou shalt...
...might also be possible to argue that the play could use a different leading man. Barry Sullivan, in the role of the police lieutenant, blurs some of the finer tones of a complex and potentially almost tragic character. A paradoxical mixture of physical strength, heroism, and of nearly morbid sensitivity, the lieutenant is driven to break South Africa's iron law by the frigidity of his wife and a lack of understanding on the part of his father. Sullivan's portrayal of the man's strength is clear and impressive, but his weaknesses appear as if they were brought...