Word: latters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Such enlightened over-acting is, of course, quite difficult, and in general the cast does very well at it. Particularly convincing are Marion Spencer as the neurotic mother and Russell Enoch as her son. The latter looks very much like F. Scott Fitzgerald and plays the prep-school-boy-in-love type with just the right kind of awkwardness...
Certainly no American Communist is likely to change his political views because he tails to receives his morning "Pravda." Nor will those wavering between capitalism and communism lose interest in the latter as a result of the Post Office's action. Indeed, such people can only view the Government's censorship at tending to confirm the soviet charge that the United states is a police state. To assume on the other hand, that a loyal citizen would be susceptible to a few pieces of Communist propaganda shows an amazing lack of confidence in both the stability of American institutions...
...convey the immense sweep of the latter work and yet do justice to episodes of intimate chamber music is the formidable task facing the performers. They must possess not only virtuosity, but a delicate rapport in ensemble; not only forceful rhythmic drives, but the courage (and control) to bring a lengthy phrase to a hushed and protracted close. Mr. and Mrs. kohn seemed aware of the immensity of their task. Much of the playing was brilliant as well as subtle. Yet on the whole, the performances of the Schubert works left too many problems unsolved or only half-heartedly assaulted...
...morality play at Salzburg. But soon the protagonists, a ballerina who is a helpless dope addict, a city health official who is a pillar of righteousness, and happy family owing a pharmacy, are entangled in the problem of good and evil. Through a series of decisions the latter characters conquer the evil which grips the ballerina and involves, by extension, all mankind. Their morality is practical and successful. It is eminently Christian...
...admirers, Florence's bustling, bespectacled little Mayor Giorgio la Pira is a latter-day Francis of Assisi. Not only does Giorgio sometimes talk to the birds and the bees; he lives in a monastery cell, and often gives the clothes from his back, the food from his plate and money from his flat purse to the poor (TIME, June 7). A Christian Democrat, he broke the Reds' grip on the Florence city administration four years ago. Some of his fellow Christian Democrats, however, shudder at where his charitable philosophy sometimes takes...