Word: max
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Friedrich Duer-renmatt novel adapted by James Yaffe makes a play of some moral and theatrical merit. Retired European men of law place a brassy American salesman on trial in a kind of parlor game. It turns out to be a spider's parlor. With Claude Dauphin, Max Adrian, Pat Hingle...
...others: New Orleans' Nahan Franko (off and on from 1899 to 1913), Detroit's Max Bendix...
...price on his head. This time his people play murder. A brash, coarse, well-heeled American salesman (Pat Hingle), whose car has broken down, asks a snowy night's lodging in a Swiss chalet. There he finds a retired judge (Ludwig Donath), a retired prosecutor (Max Adrian) and a retired defense lawyer (Claude Dauphin) who meet regularly to dine well and then stage trials-in a "Court of the Unconscious, where the law does not reach"-of various living or historical characters. Invited to stand trial for murder, the American, equally cocksure of his innocence and his smartness...
...whom were, like Milstein, trained by the late great Leopold Auer. In the generation that has passed since Milstein first appeared on the U.S. musical scene, he has transformed himself without fanfare from a dazzling virtuoso to a mature master, not only of bravura composers such as Max Bruch and Sarasate, but of Brahms, Beethoven and Bach. Little interested in contemporary music ("I am not a pioneer; perhaps my taste is bad"), he has won a vast audience to his sensitive readings of the classics...
...fictional device is 16 pages of gamy verses, supposedly in Burns's own handwriting and sewn into a copy of The Merry Muses of Caledonia (the notorious anthology that the poet made to amuse his drinking companions). Max Arbuthnot, a goatish old Edinburgh lawyer with a fondness for '27 port and women of about the same vintage, undertakes to sell the smoldering and hitherto unknown holograph for his impoverished sister. He shows it to a fey, gloomy poet nicknamed Yacky Doo, who amuses himself alternately with a beckoning death wish and with Arbuthnot's married daughter...