Word: grave
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Director Joan Mickelson seemed to have some trouble with the tiny Agassiz stage, and sometimes her routines border on the monotonous, but considering the grave problem of space, the blocking and direction is highly successful. Music Director Arthur Waldstein deserves large credit for the proper fast pace of the show and the amazing articulateness with which the songs are sung. However the overture is unbearably long, pompous, forced, and dull...
Twelve Angry Men is primarily a dramatic case-study of the interactions in a group of men making a grave decision; the subtlety of contact and influence back and forth among them, the actions proceeding out of their affected personalities despite themselves, make the film fascinating to watch. The lever on which the study is poised happens to be Justice, and there are a few soggy lines about how wonderful it is to have juries, but the errant enjoyed simply on the merits of the actors and their direction...
...Star reflected: "We believe it wiser to think of him as a victim of sacrificial service to his country than to say that he was 'murdered' by the slander of a few irresponsible men in Washington. Mr. Norman will carry the truth of his motivation to the grave with...
...courtly" alcoholic just out of psychiatric treatment. With him. Diana began drinking in earnest. Mummy died, leaving orders that "her body was to lie in state [and] Wagner's Parsifal to be played continuously on her Capehart ... I was not sober when I stood above her open grave...
...help but feel that such a parochial few would cause William James to "roll over in his grave...