Word: languors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...combine and to complement each other and the text; probably, therefore, (though no one can be sure who is finally responsible for what) this Twelfth Night is a directorial success. Mr. Benthall's work lacks variety of mood and interest, and overstresses the play's quality of Keatsian languor and softness; yet, in its way, like Olivia's face, "'tis beauty truly blent...
...four short years the college weans him from his adolescent languor by giving substance to such middle class ideals as order, planning, ambition, and achievement. During his four year stay at college this youngster turns from his teen-age dreams to the impersonal requirements of his future career--work and individual responsibility. His college degree symbolizes his surrender to the success ethic, and his ability to gradate foreshadows ability in the conference room and at the bargaining counter...
Despite the supposed intellectual languor of a nation devoted to TV and tailfins. U.S. publishers are turning out books as fast as they can be printed (a near record 11,881 titles so far this year), and customers are buying at a rate that will probably surpass the 1956 high of some $750 million. But to Veteran Publisher Alfred A. Knopf, 65, the state of the publishing business is parlous. In the current Atlantic Monthly, Knopf lines up his culprits for a scattergun blast...
...danger in all this is growing languor and ultimate drowsiness. That is what befell Composer Aden's tropical House of Flowers, with its far more promising book. But though the book of Jamaica, in short, has an idiot simplicity and an almost insolent lack of purpose, it sort of timidly shuffles about between tunes, seldom even daring to let go with gags. Moreover, the book has Lena Horne on every page, and Harold Arlen to turn the page while she is singing one or another of his songs. She is beautiful, and with what elegant sexuality she twists about...
...Juliet. This week the film, the first feature-length movie of an entire ballet, which took a 1955 Cannes Film Festival grand prize, begins its first limited showings in the U.S., will be shown nationally next fall. It has its shortcomings as cinema, and it has a storybook languor that seems old-fashioned in contrast to the fast pace of U.S. ballet, but it makes excitingly good on its promise of a look at the great Ulanova in action...