Word: mediums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Water color is one medium at which Englishmen have generally excelled; Nash's handling of it was traditionally deft and cool. He turned his back on the cities and factories, and painted in the serenity of his own garden and his grey-carpeted studio. Almost no human figures marred the privacy of the world he painted. Aside from his technique, and a faintly romantic air, there was nothing traditional about that world; Nash's water colors and oils alike were halfway abstract. "Nature we need not deny," he once explained, "but art ... should control...
Some Kind of Power. Mowatt heals, he thinks, by acting as a medium through which the sick person is able to believe in and accept the healing powers of nature, which can then take over and do the job. On his visit to a patient, he generally talks for a while of these powers and of God, then begins to pray. After praying, he says, he feels "vibrations" building up inside him, and when he touches the sick ones the vibrations pass from his "body into theirs, bringing relief. His work seems especially successful with paralytics and victims of nervous...
Menotti: The Telephone and The Medium (Marilyn Cotlow, Frank Rogier, Marie Powers, Evelyn Keller, Beverly Dame, Catherine Mastice, with orchestra conducted by Emanuel Balaban; Columbia, 20 sides). Menotti's two chamber operas, surprise hits on Broadway last year, have been recorded by the original casts-and hold their original charm and power. Recording: excellent...
Farrebique (Siritzky-International) is the record of one year on a French farm of that name. A great subject and a great creative medium, peculiarly well suited to each other, meet and are combined in this film into one of the better events in the history of pure cinema...
Georges Rouquier, who "conceived and produced" this film, clearly has this understanding of his medium, combined with creative inspiration and boldness. The subject-the daily and lifelong effort of rural man as a part of nature and as a portion of eternity-is one of the grandest there is, and has inspired a long creative tradition. In that great line, Farrebique deals with its theme in terms which the theme cries out for-absolute realism...