Word: main
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...learn to. That's what you mean, isn't it?" By ending the play at that point, Director Herbert Hirschman avoided both facile moralism and easy sentimentalism. Though Actor Corey was as good in his moments of stress as he was bad in those of tenderness, main focus rested on Barbara Bel Geddes, who was so poignantly convincing as the tortured heroine that The Desperate Age came desperately close...
...Renoir. Among Hill's favorites were the rousing historical scenes of the great 19th century French Romantic, Eugene Delacroix, including The Algerian Combat.* Hill's own sound maxim, discovered early: good art drives out bad. In his last years, while the townspeople along "Jim Hill's main line" variously called him a robber baron or praised his drive and enterprise, the old tycoon used to spend hours every week in communion with his romantic French artists...
...proved to be a propulsive, clamorous virtuoso work in both twelve-tone and traditional diatonic idioms, with its limber solo line woven through the big sonorities of the orchestra in a stirringly unfolding tapestry of sound. The first movement, in alternating slow and fast tempi, built to its main climax by echoing the solo violin nights with orchestral figurations set at closer and closer intervals. By turns, the second movement was complex and agitated, waltzlike and melodic, with muted violins and then muted trumpets repeating the soloist's refrainlike theme. The third movement opened with rich orchestral tone clusters...
...pilots' main argument is that the new jets must have three pilots for safety's sake. If the fuselage were damaged at high altitudes and pressurization failed, explosive decompression could knock out both pilot and copilot; to "fail safe," say the pilots, the system should have an engineer on the job who can also perform pilot's duties. The hole in this argument, say the airlines, is that any explosive decompression in the cockpit would knock out the entire crew-including a third pilot-engineer...
...meetings, Stubbins has considered construction of an underground stage, so that the building will harmonize with the surroundings and the street noise can be minimized. Other features which might have been included in the sketches approved yesterday are a library, a workshop theatre, and an adjustable apron on the main stage which can be raised and lowered to meet various production demands...