Word: levelling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Barnes Bill; it is not limited to the field of education and there is far more likelihood that it will become law. The Bill provides for a committee on subversive activities in the Massachusetts legislature which would bring the Dics-Rankin-Thomas type of investigation down to the state level...
...carefully shaded realignment of audience sympathies is the main moving force of the film. Opening impressions of the hero leave you with a generally uneasy feeling about him, while you might think that the crook and his girl are well along on the way to honesty. Consistently high-level supporting actors, superb camera work, and a good script are instrumental in the slow change. Where the film shows its honesty is in the final acceptance by the girl of the necessary double-crossing of her middle-aged admirer to throw police off the trail of her criminal lover...
Despite the fact that additional people and places are now visible, "The Voice of the Turtle" is still essentially a three-character show. Eleanor Parker and Ronald Reagan, while not able to reach the level established in New York by Margaret Sullivan and Elliot Nugent, are quite capable. Eve Arden, playing the glossy, irresponsible Olive, is up to any standard...
Hubble's discovery threw top-level science into confused arguments which are still raging. For various reasons (besides "common sense"), the idea of an exploding universe gave sober scientists goose-pimples. But every attempt to reason the theory away raised even more serious problems. Since Hubble had seen so much with the 100-inch telescope (whose range is 500 million light-years), the astronomers simply had to see still farther...
Voices, too, seemed at a level below that of other New England Opera Theater productions. Only Norman Scott, in the lead role, did a first-rate job-others varying from not quite adequate to definitely annoying...