Word: ideals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This dramatic story," says Composer Moore, "makes an ideal outline for an opera libretto." He is right. Born in Vermont in 1830, HAW Tabor caught the gold fever early, wandered with his wife Augusta to Colorado, and for 20 years alternated storekeeping and prospecting. He made his big strike at Leadville when he was 47; within a year he was a millionaire. To help celebrate his new affluence, he gave Denver a magnificent Opera House with his name engraved on a two-foot block of silver. Librettist John (Cabin in the Sky) Latouche picks up the story from there. Tabor...
Henry V could have even more glorious staging, however, and still fail. What the play absolutely must have is a strong, authentic Henry--a King who, through the kaleidoscope of moods and situations in which Shakespeare places him, emerges as not just an "ideal" monarch but also as a believable man. Douglas Watson, who plays the title role in the Festival production, gives a performance that is far from flawless. However, he does succeed in making Henry an earnest, changing person, and the play succeeds with...
Many other aspects of the movie serve admirably to heighten the adventure and the atmosphere. The new color style, a blend of black and white with technicolor--is an ideal compromise between the prosaic and the lush. The musical score is appropriate. And Huston controls the dramatic pace effectively, starting slowly in the New Bedford scenes, mixing in increasingly explicit predictions of doom, and constantly quickening the tempo until at the end, in the storm scene and the final fight with Moby Dick, the action grips not just the Pequod's crew but the audience as well...
...globe-circling Indonesian President Sukarno, whose republic is an infant democracy, Pope Pius XII passed on an ideal of democratic maturity: "Tranquillity and order, security and liberty under divine justice, so that citizens can [achieve] physical, intellectual and moral progress." Moslem Sukarno agreed...
...question is, then, what is the best way to fight the racist extremists? Is it by taking an opposite but equally extreme stand and hoping that the result will be a position half way between, or is it by demanding, firmly and quietly, something less than the ideal, indeed aiming publicly for that middle position? We think the latter way--at once flexible and firm, quiet and forceful--is the better answer. To win the legal principle, it was necessary and right for groups like the NAACP to carry their test cases as far as possible, and press for sweeping...