Word: moderns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hollywood Restaurateur Mike Romanoff, the "Prince" of modern phonies, who has kept his origins and his early immigration run-ins with the U.S. suitably mixed up, turned drably legitimate. By voice vote, the U.S. Senate passed a bill declaring him a permanent U.S. resident as of December 1932. Said Mike: "I've lost my title. I feel sort of naked before mine enemies...
...provincial newspaper-he strapped on skis and ran an elk to exhaustion. Since 1953 he has averaged a story a week for Apu, often has his exploits reported in the Scandinavian and northern German press. One future assignment: hunting a bear with a spear (to prove that modern Finns are as strong as their ancestors...
...effort, resources and intelligence now used in preparations for war to a plan for non-violent national defense. Fully aware of the need to resist the growth of communism, they yet look on war as only strengthening totalitarianism everywhere, and deny the assumption that "the massive engine of modern war can be applied rationally, or controlled to achieve democratic ends . . . And we have seen that a constructive program for peace cannot be carried on simultaneously with a program for military preparedness...
Camera is a skillful, carefully constructed, modern realistic comedy: not the sort of play which gives tremendous scope for a director to exhibit his virtuosity. Jean-Claude van Itallie has not tried any tricks, but he has kept the production moving with smooth skill through John Beck's lavishly shabby set. Joseph Raposo's music borrows its manner and some of its substance from Kurt Weill, and like almost everything else about this production, it is just right...
...Brotherhood just another sect to divide religious people still further? There is a vast difference between an inclusive Brotherhood, modern in outlook and knowledge, where varying points of view are adjusted in the search for a fuller brotherhood, and the excluding, binding authoritative tradition built up over the centuries about a personal Savior or a chosen people...