Word: flavours
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second story of any length is a piece by Elizabeth Sussman, a sophomore at Vassar, who took a writing course in Cambridge this summer. The Flavour of Mortality is concerned with two children adopted by a couple which lives from April to April in futile hope of the husband's promotion. The characters of the children are drawn with some subtlety; the boy's awkwardness and introspection are developed effectively, as are the main problems of the story--the uselessness of the parents' lives, and the quietly savage intensity of the boy's attempt to escape the "mortality...
Director Ingmar Bergman has succeeded in giving Smiles of a Summer Night a gay, satirical flavour which at times is all that saves it, for not all the characters act as well as Ulla Jacobson and Harriet Anderson look. What is most disappointing is Bergman's failure to make the most of his material, since many tiresome moments could be redeemed with more candid photography. The best performances are given by Bjornstrand and by Naima Wifstrand, who plays an aged courtesan with charm and familiarity...
...with the American taxpayer when I saw three U.S.A.F. transports at Nairobi ... I think it is disgraceful that Moral Re-Armament's The Vanishing Island should have been allowed to be put on at the National Theatre of Nairobi-whose charter clearly states that nothing of a political flavour can be shown in it. The play is anti-British, anti-democratic and anticolonial. At a time like this, when we are having the greatest difficulties in stabilizing colonial administration, it is a great pity that this sort of thing has been allowed to be shown in a theatre backed...