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...small string ensemble. In their solo passages, the strings sounded uniformly out of tune, weak, uncertain, and uncoordinated Beneath the chorus, they could only muddle the texture a little, but almost did derange the pitch and rhythm of the three excellent soloists. Sure and accurate, Tenor David Griffith, Soprano Emily Romney and Bass Chi-Yuen Wang successfully staved off the strings, but were drowned by the chorus's volume. Except at a few points, it seemed that the chorus had been through the whole thing before and was tiredly stampeding home: Frederic H. Ford, conductor at the Radcliffe Freshman Choral...
...rest of the meet, your guess is as good as anybody's. The butterfly could go either way, Freddy Ellizalde holds the University record of 2:06.4, though he has not matched it this year. The Tigers have Jim Griffith, with a recorded time of 2:07.2, and Gutman, who has done...
...Hearst) who shared his talent for big ideas and big success. And yet, he did not take the easy way out and laugh at Kane for the pompous megalomaniac that he was; he strove to make him a human being instead of a straw man like the one Andy Griffith played in A Face in the Crowd, a movie vaguely reminiscent of Kane. Indeed, Welles could never be called supersubtle in his characterization of Kane as a love-starved neurotic, but then he entirely avoids simple caricature and bludgeoning satire...
...doubt about it now: Japan's Akira Kurosawa must be numbered with Sergei Eisenstein and D. W. Griffith among the supreme creators of cinema. Rashomon (1952) introduced him to U.S. audiences as a powerful ironist. The Magnificent Seven (1956) demonstrated his mastery of movies as pure movement. Ikiru (1960), one of the screen's great spiritual documents, revealed him as a moralist both passionate and profound. Throne of Blood, a resetting of Macbeth among the clanking thanes and brutish politics of 16th century Japan, is a visual descent into the hell of greed and superstition, into the gibbering...
Birth of a Nation, the 1915 D. L. Griffith film classic starring Lillian Gish, purports to tell the story of the South's post-Civil War struggles against carpetbaggers from the North...