Word: ivans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sympathetic narrative about a boy from the Azores who likes to watch the Atlantic planes come in, and dreams of going to America, "Technical Landing," by Ivan Morris, may convey shades of Kafka to some, but as a character study the story stands well by itself. Perhaps the fact that the planes only come in when they're in trouble and the suggestion that the boy hasn't the ghost of a chance of going to America have divine implications, but it doesn't affect the quality of the work either way. "Girl in a Blue Mood," by Arthur...
Those of Senior standing elected are: Alan S. Cohen '47 of Dorchester; Norman Geschwind '46 of Dunster House and Brooklyn; Henry B. Helson '47 of Adams House and Bryn Mawr, Pa.; and Ivan I. Morris '46 of Manchester, Mass...
...score of Sergei Prokofieff, fully expresses the emotional current, and the plot is distinctly visual. Photographic effects, indeed, are the strongest element in the picture, with dramatic composition in brilliant silhouetted contrast present in almost every scene. Artistic technique, in this respect, reaches its best with a show of Ivan hovering over a globe against the white interior of the imperial palace...
Clarity of mood, however, while always appropriate in a photographer, can and is carried to over-extended lengths by the actors of "Ivan The Terrible." Therefore the character development of Ivan, for example, beset by traitor boyar noblemen within his court and hosts of foes without, progresses on a very unrefined level, and a few intimate glimpses fail to humanize a somewhat stereotyped symbol. Contemporary political significance, injected into the concluding scene when Ivan successfully turns to his people for support against his treacherous lieutenants, does unnecessary violence to subtlety for the sake of propaganda...
...series of historical tapestries, "Ivan The Terrible" nevertheless remains impressive entertainment. If the episodic nature of the narrative is admitted, each individual sequence has independent unity of pace. The coronation of young Ivan, the sacking of Tartar Kazan, a deathbed scene which ably reproduces the oriental mysticism of medieval Russian Christianity, and the loneliness of Ivan's old age as his princes desert to the jackals baying around his borders--all these make striking individual images. Unfortunately, they are strung together in ponderous disunity and confusion...