Word: goode
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...music, rarely even gets around to the works of such eminent Viennese as Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern. But the men of the Vienna Philharmonic know what they like. Says Concertmaster Willy Boskovsky: "Our dominion, with our sound, is Beethoven, Brahms, Bruckner and the classics; at this we are good. Perhaps American orchestras can play some of the newer music better...
...betting and gambling are ecclesiastical crimes." Dr. Fisher came out in favor of the government's new bill to legalize off-track betting as a way to control a "grave social evil." But, he added, this does not mean the church is "saying that betting and gaming are good things. They...
...story sometimes lags-not, oddly enough, because it is too long but because it is too short. For the final script, M-G-M eliminated an entire subplot that gives the middle of the story its shape and suspense. But the religious theme is handled with rare restraint and good taste. The face of Christ is never fully revealed. The Sermon on the Mount, The Trial. The Ascent of Calvary and The Crucifixion are pictured, without breathless reverence, in a matter-of-fact manner, as contemporary political events...
...script, written by Karl Tunberg, and touched up by S. N. Behrman, Gore Vidal and Christopher Fry, is well ordered, and its lines sometimes sing with good rhetoric and quiet poetry. The actors, for the most part, play in the grand manner, but with controlled firmness. Actor Boyd carries off the prize with a virile portrayal of Messala, and Hugh...
...Lard. But this is the year of the defense. The mighty Cleveland Browns are as good at stopping touchdowns as making them. Even with its league-leading offense, the champion Baltimore Colts have wallowed badly at times this season because its faltering defense failed to back up the N.F.L.'s most formidable tackle: Gene ("Big Daddy") Lipscomb (6 ft. 6 in., 288 Ibs.), who riffles with heavy hands through enemy backs ("I keep the one with the ball"). Last week, once again tackling hard and low, the Colts hit the San Francisco Forty-Niners so hard that they allowed...