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...second half of the evening added the redoubtable and often noisy Roger Voisin to the orchestra for a performance of J.S. Bach's Cantata 51, Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen. But under the severe direction of Mr. Woodworth, and before the marvel that is Miss Addison's voice, even Mr. Voisin's trumpet was subdued and melodious...
...weaker of Gideon's two acts, Gideon falls un-Biblically out of love with the Lord. He fails to heed the Lord's command to kill some idolatrous Hebrew tribal chiefs. There is an extenuating fleshly circumstance. One of the chief's daughters is a pelvic marvel (Lorraine Egypt) who does a temptress dance to rival Salome's. More pertinently, and impertinently, Gideon pleads that his pity for fellow humans is above God's law. He asks the Lord to be released from the "covenant of love." arguing "You are too vast a concept...
General della Rovere is a technically perfect movie, a marvel of skillful photography and acting. But its overall effect is nowhere near as moving as director Roberto Rossellini would have us believe, and at times it is hollow and dull...
...Angeles setting up Kennedy headquarters a full month before the Democrats met to choose their candidate for President. In Los Angeles, O'Brien's elaborate telephone and walkie-talkie system of instant, 24-hour communication with the convention floor and each state delegation headquarters was a marvel of modern political efficiency. After the convention, O'Brien applied all his tried and true organizational techniques to Kennedy's winning campaign against Republican Richard Nixon. "It was dog work," he recalls, "but it was worthwhile: it worked." Jack Kennedy's own post-election appraisal...
Although written in only six days, Night You Are is a marvel of structural craftsmanship over and above its meaty and profound content. Time and again Pirandello leads his plot into seemingly impossible situations, only to wriggle out of them with twists of genius. And She play builds to one of the neatest and densest climaxes in all drama...