Word: horizons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...musical, Shangri-La takes itself very seriously. James Hilton, apparently started out with the feeling that a number of ideas, all found in the Hilton novel Lost Horizon on which the musical is based, were important and should be expressed. Undoubtedly these ideas, ranging from the brotherhood of man through the value of moderation to the evils of mechanized civilization, have a profound importance. The first concern of the stage, however, is human personality and not abstract philosophy. Philosophical ideas get a valid dramatic statement only so long as they illuminate some dilemma in which the people on stage find...
Shangri-La opened last night at the Shubert. The new musical is based upon the novel "Lost Horizon." Boston reviewers gave pleasant reviews, the CRIMSON will pan it next week. Shows at 8:30 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. Saturday...
...Landmarks. In addition to signing the notable Declaration of Washington, the President and Prime Minister also produced a formal communiqué on the key landmarks of the international horizon, a generalized document that sometimes reflected more agreement, and sometimes less, than had actually been attained...
Here and there along the horizon, the President and the Prime Minister reached total agreement, e.g., to continue to press for the reunification of Germany, to continue to regard an attack on Berlin as an attack upon the U.S. and Britain. Here and there they reached total disagreement, e.g., the U.S. turned down Britain's request that it join the Baghdad Pact of anti-Communist countries in the Middle East; the U.S. declined to intervene in Britain's oil row with Saudi Arabia at the remote Buraimi Oasis (TIME...
Beyond the Horizon. The future President worked as a telegraph operator in Belo Horizonte for seven years, putting himself through preparatory schools and medical school. On the job from midnight to 7 a.m., he started classes at 8 a.m., snatched a few hours of sleep in the afternoon. He got his M.D. (cum laude) at 26, resigned his telegrapher's job the same day. Meanwhile, his sister Maria had married a prosperous Belo Horizonte surgeon, who made Kubitschek his assistant. A year later, bitten by wanderlust, Kubitschek borrowed money from rich friends and took off for Europe-supposedly...