Word: idolator
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...offers this glossy rebrush of the book. Children will do well to sit up and beg for the film, and even grown-up judges may affectionately award it a tear-soaked blue ribbon. Actor Mackenzie is wonderfully canty and touching as Auld Jock-and as a muttinee idol the Skye's the limit...
...others in the $12 billion-a-year U.S. advertising business agree with him. Lately there has been a new flare-up of criticism of the adman and his trade. Semanticist S. I. Hayakawa damns advertising as "venal poetry," and Historian Arnold Toynbee contends that it is the unholy idol of materialism (TIME, Sept. 22). Some of the most articulate critics occupy influential jobs in Government, from U.S. Ambassador to India John Kenneth (The Affluent Society) Galbraith to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Newton Minow, who has lambasted TV's "many screaming, cajoling and offending commercials...
West Side Story is a resetting of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet in the race-riotous slums of Manhattan's Upper West Side. Romeo (Richard Beymer) is a white boy, idol of a teen tong called The Jets. Juliet (Natalie Wood) is a Puerto Rican girl whose brother (George Chakiris) is the leader of a rival street gang called The Sharks. As in Shakespeare's poem, the star-crossed lovers meet and love and find their fate in the ugly shadow of suspicion that divides their kindred. Unhappily, the literary parallel, though it lends the piece...
...trouble centered in the group's choice of plays when it planned a five-city Latin American swing earlier this summer. As the idol of the Method-acting school, Williams automatically had to become the focal point of the repertory. But which plays? Helen Hayes and her Government-sponsored ANTA company were soon to tour Latin America with The Glass Menagerie. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof was just "too dirty," and A Streetcar Named Desire called for too large a cast. So the group ended up doing Suddenly, Last Summer and Sweet Bird of Youth...
...idol is Pakistan's Sandhurst-trained soldier-boss, Field Marshal Mohammed Ayub Khan, who shares the same jaundiced view of democracy available too soon in a largely illiterate nation. For weeks, Pak and his fellow junta leaders, all soldiers, studied Ayub's techniques and pondered the advice of the new U.S. ambassador in Seoul, Samuel Berger. Berger's practical counsel: Hang on to power if you will, but give the people some timetable for a return of democracy. Pak has done just that. Last week he announced that the reins of government will indeed be handed back...