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Moral: Humanity, drop dead! Humanity may not take Kurosawa's advice, but anybody who sees this picture will be shaken by it. Rage like a gale, action like an avalanche roar out of the screen, leveling all resistance. The scenes are short, the story swift, the cutting terse. Like a giant cauldron the screen boils with life, and Kurosawa's telescopic lenses, spooning deep, lift the depths to the surface and hurl the whole mess at the spectator's face. All the players play with succussive intensity, but Mifune, a magnificent athlete-actor, dominates the scene...
When American movie actors come suddenly to fame, they are often top-heavy with inexperience, running dangerously before a full gale of publicity. With English actors, it is usually the other way round: their training and experience are so solid that their achievement of prominence seems inevitable rather than lucky...
...Firth of Clyde, the 84-year-old Troon course has the teeth of a tiger and the temperament of a capricious shrew. It was at Troon in the 1923 British Open that 21-year-old Gene Sarazen, cocky 1922 U.S. Open champion, teed off into a howling gale sweeping in unannounced from the slate-grey firth, shot a horrendous 85, and caught the next boat home. Even in the sunniest of weather, the championship 7,045-yd. course is a clutching jungle of harsh gorse, spiny Scotch broom and impenetrable whin bushes. Ditchlike burns and sheerfaced bunkers dot the threadbare...
...best qualities, thankfully, is an ability to complete her appointed rounds, like the postman, without reference to threatening atmospheric conditions. Consequently, one was often able to hear Miss Andy's precise, professional, and sensibly articulated playing even in the teeth of an orchestral noise of near gale force. This piano concerto was also listed as a premiere performance in the area, but that is a mistake: its premiere has yet to be heard...
...Radcliffe College chapter of Phi Beta Kappa elected 21 members of the class of 1962, including: Mrs. Dorothy A. Bell, English; Dulcie J. Eames, English; Julia B. Freeman, biochemical sciences; Mary E. Gale, English; Barbara A. Gay, Romance languages & literatures...