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...wrote some songs, and one of them, sung by Marian Anderson, finally got his name on a Carnegie Hall program. Among his other compositions he wrote two symphonies, and last season one of them brought him further recognition. Dimitri Mitropoulos, a conductor always on the lookout for new works for the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, studied the score of Swanson's Short Symphony (his second), gave it a first performance in Carnegie Hall, and later included it in his Edinburgh Festival program. It was rich in melody and vigorous in rhythm, pleasing if not musically adventurous...
...fifth afternoon a lookout on the minesweeper U.S.S. Token spotted Gus Frazer, unconscious, sitting upright in the boat, his hand still near the tiller. Sammy, still alive, died half an hour after his rescue. His parents' bodies were still in the boat...
Here we see the United States, supposedly involved in a fight for freedom, contrasted with another land where people are really free. And the contrast is not pleasant. The message that "The Day the Earth Stood Still" brings is not that we better be on the lookout for an invasion from above. Rather it shows how petty the squabbles between nations really are, and more important, that these squabbles have blinded our thinking. This is a frightening movie, not because of any startling photography, but because here we can really see to what depths the world has sunk...
Sandrino Verges! was on the lookout for the ideal woman. For an angel-faced Italian youngster of 16, his tastes were rather special. "First she resists, and then she lets you gradually kill her, bit by bit . . . I want the feeling of having something that defends itself and that you slowly crush and crush and crush until the life's crushed out of it." In the next room to his, sharing the same grubby apartment house, Sandrino finds someone to his sadistic little heart's desire...
What McMahon was pointing at was the so-called "China Lobby." He had issued his lookout's cry once before, during the MacArthur hearing, when the Republicans were blasting the Administration's Far East policy. McMahon had countered with dark charges of the sinister efforts of a "China Lobby" to draw the U.S. into Chiang Kai-shek's camp...