Word: kirkes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Even Kirk Douglas, tanned and bearded, looks the part of Ulysses, though when he speaks, it is clear that he is more at home in Ithaca, N.Y. than the Ithaca of Homer. In fact, talk is one of the picture's major flaws. It was filmed in the Mediterranean with a French, Italian and American cast, and most of the parts have had to be dubbed in English. The dubbers dubbed the job. In the opening sequence, where Penelope (Silvana Mangano) holds off her importunate suitors, the synchronization of words and lip movements is particularly awry, but this should...
Frankie Laine Time (Wed. 8 p.m., CBS). A new musical revue. Guests: Lisa Kirk, Somethin' Smith...
...added, "Dr. Kirk is wrong when he suggests that we can inch our way into a totalitarian government. History provides no warrant for this belief. It has been the weak, rather than the strong, governments which have attracted totalitarianism...
Growing centralization of power, Kirk argued, has led to an even greater danger by threatening not only our political, but also our cultural and economic diversity. "We are in danger of being dominated by conformity and a soulless technology," he said. "The conservatives, though not sufficiently, have done more than the liberals to meet this problem...
...trouble with conservatives," Schlesinger said, "is that they think change is bad. The world is constantly changing," he added, "and we must change with it." Kirk maintained, however, that thinking conservatives merely sought to link change with the traditions of the past. "Any healthy society needs conflicting currents of progress and permanence," he said, "but the present society, however, has an especially great need for stability...