Word: missions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...silent movie bit is good for some wonderful parody sequences and some elegant, expensive Peter Larkin sets. Unfortunately, it also provides the Kerrs with an opening for an improving lecture on the cultural mission of the nickelodeon, by way of proving that a movie-director hero is not "a common, on-the-make hustler," but an idealist and an artist. For my money, he's still a common, on-the-make hustler, loaded with moral earnestness in an attempt to season a piece of high-quality hackwork with maladroit and dubious "social comment." (This pseudo-moralism is the second-worst...
...Live in peace," said Dag Hammarskjold, winding up his 17-day peacemaking mission in the Middle East. In a resolution of last month's emergency U.N. Assembly meeting, the Arabs had pledged themselves to noninterference in one another's affairs, and asked the Secretary General to make practical arrangements to assure that these promises were carried out, with the ultimate object of achieving the evacuation of British and U.S. troops from Jordan and Lebanon...
Hammarskjold's mission looked better in Lebanon-but largely because Lebanon's crisis seemed to be quieting down. The incoming regime of President-elect Fuad Chehab had gained wide internal backing. But neither Chehab nor President Camille Chamoun could give any commitments. No U.N. presence was established to permit all U.S. troops to withdraw, though last week the U.S. pulled out 2,000 more marines...
...Sicily to the printed page without losing a scrap of myth, beauty and horror. In Christ Stopped at Eboli (TIME, May 5, 1947), Levi dealt with life in Lucania, an even poorer region, and the book brought him such fame that he now writes with a special sense of mission about the Italian poor. His weaknesses are 1) too much self-consciousness in his pleading, 2) too little skepticism respecting the left. Yet few will read Author Levi's Impressions of Sicily without feeling a forgiving sympathy for both these weaknesses...
...Daddy's "28,000 of the richest acres west of the River Nile," ostensibly for a family celebration of Big Daddy's 65th birthday. But the real cause of the gathering is the news that Big Daddy (Burl Ives) may be dying, and Maggie's real mission is to protect her share of the inheritance from Brick's brother Gooper (Jack Carson), a prolific dullard whose major contribution to the world is five little "neckless monsters...