Word: melo
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...takes command of the guided-missile frigate Suffren, based in .the Mediterranean port of Toulon. In their first joint venture as producer and star, Mel Ferrer and his wife Audrey Hepburn, 37, braved the streets of Greenwich Village for a few location shots for Wait Until Dark, a melo- dramatic mystery that has her playing a blind girl terrorized by a couple of murderous junkies. On hand to lend civic punctilio to the occasion was New York's Mayor John Lindsay, 45, with his wife Mary. And since he'd left the keys to the city back...
...hesitates before the glass door of the downtown building, then pushes through and climbs a narrow staircase to the second floor. There he pauses again before the well-advertised insignia on another door, squares his shoulders and steps into a brightly lit room filled with the murmur of Muzak melo dies. The man is 37, married, and a fa ther. He is a steady wage earner with a $6,092-a-year income. He is also in debt (to the tune of $513) and pressed by his creditors. He is a typical customer who has come to solve his problems...
...MacVeagh's dilemma-and Knebel's tale. How to convince anybody else in official Washington of so horrendous a truth? As a Pentagon general remarks: "Nobody -but nobody-in this country can tell a President of the United States that his mind is sick." The result is melo drama at its best and worst: once begun, hard to put down; once finished, easily forgotten...
Even more far-reaching is the change within nordestinos themselves. Says Recife Industrialist Renato Bezerra de Melo: "You feel a crazy desire on the part of everybody to learn-even among the illiterate. I can start any kind of course in my factory, and 200 workers will show up." In Rio Grande do Norte, one newly literate farm hand-still thrilled with the simple miracle of being able to read seed packages-explained why: "I have suddenly discovered that...
...critic called the pageant the paltry sum of "lemur-like witches from a melo drama, fur-clad shepherds from an amateur little theater, and small children from a club Christmas pageant." But other German critics found Orff's work magical, "full of simple poetry and totally pious...