Word: martially
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Caine Mutiny Court Martial (adapted from his novel by Herman Wouk) comes off thoroughly good theater -and not least because it shuns the overtly theatrical. For stage purposes, Novelist Wouk has so backgrounded and built up the court-martial scene of his Caine Mutiny as to suggest a shipboard drama of events through a courtroom drama of character. Charles Laughton has staged the production with a superbly unswerving sense of the whole. Building slowly, the play at length walls in, not the court-martialed Lieut. Maryk, but his accuser, Commander Queeg, skipper of the destroyer-minesweeper U.S.S. Caine...
There is much, beyond the pulse of the story, to enhance the court-martial setup. The charge against Maryk of seizing com mand during a typhoon on the ground that Queeg was mentally ill - is an un hackneyed one. Again, Maryk's lawyer, Lieut. Barney Greenwald, would far rather be prosecuting than defending his client - and indeed wins him an acquittal by not defending him. Instead, he attacks others: first he twists a fatuous psychiatrist's tail, then twists the knife in an emotionally frayed and rattled Queeg. And there is the final celebration scene, a sort...
Theater tactics, like trial tactics, run to throwing a certain amount of dust in people's eyes ; and in places The Caine Mutiny Court Martial has been slicked up, speeded up, shaped to measure for that treasure house of behaviorism, a courtroom. But the maneuvers always have pertinence: thus, the easy laughs at the expense of the psychiatrist are an integral part of the trial itself, not just a fillip for the show. What is sharp in the play is all the sharper for what is deliberately flat; no one understands better than Director Laughton the counter-theatricalism...
Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan .stands 6 ft. 3 in., and once weighed 220 Ibs. He has a martial beak of a nose and a clipped white beard. Though at 63 he is ailing, he used to look capable of tearing a bullock apart with his hands. For the past 30 years, Ghaffar Khan has practiced and preached nonviolence. He was Gandhi's chief convert among the Moslems, and in the rugged Khyber Pass region he is still known as "the Frontier Gandhi...
...four one morning Pyle's forty armed deputies, and eighty pistol-packing highway patrolmen surrounded Short Creek and seized the town, placing it under martial...