Word: loving
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sentenced for raping a 19-year-old Negro coed seven times at point of knife and shotgun. On the bench sat Circuit Judge W. (for William) May Walker, 54, a snow-haired tree of a man (6 ft. 2 in., 220 lbs.) and a lifelong Floridian, whose love for the South is exceeded only by his dedication to equal justice under the law. "Yours was a horrible and deplorable crime, committed under horrible circumstances," said the judge. And then he handed down the stiffest sentences possible-considering that the jury had recommended mercy (TIME, June 22): life terms in Raiford...
...last week's performance, Moon proved to be a frolicsome work with a gaily rippling score, evocative of Haydn's more celebrated The Seasons. If it was sometimes as thin as the moon's atmosphere itself, it also offered several rollicking ensembles, a rousing love duet, and a bubbly beat, as if Papa Haydn had been determined to do a gavotte straight into the stratosphere...
...elixir that, he is told, will transport him to the wonderful moon world. Convinced, when he comes to, that he really is on the moon, he encounters various phony lunar marvels (including a tongue-twisting lunar language with phrases like "Luna lena lino lana lino lunala"). In the end, love conquers time and space, but what counts is expressed in one of the opera's jubilant lines: "It's a wonderful life on the moon...
...doing when the bell of command is rung; she cannot persuade her thoughts from memories and objects, "the vanity of this world." Her nature rebels because her will insists on nothing less than saintly perfection; she cannot accept her human imperfection. She makes her sacrifice not with love but with pride, not for God's sake...
...supporting roles represent different attitudes towards love and marriage. Of these the best-drawn are Friar Laurence and the Nurse; but their portrayals, by Hiram Sherman and Aline MacMahon, fall short. Morris Carnovsky as Capulet and Nancy Wickwire as his Lady are both commendable; Capulet's denunciation of Juliet is particularly forceful...