Word: moment
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tempo has been put to better use. Most of the action takes place in the Tower of London and a single set and part of the orchestra is used. The scenes flow rapidly one into the other by use of lights, rather than curtains and there is seldom a moment, without visual activity. When Richard is soliloquizing on his villainy, there is a red light, presumably from Hell, shining upon him. During the battle scene, which is done all in silhouette and with imaginary weapons, an off-stage drum beats. All of these things are very effective and tastefully done...
Agnostic Ortega had no system to give; with his own brand of humanism, he could only hope to guide men, as he had once urged them to act grandly. "Man has no nature," he once wrote. "He has a history." That history changed each moment, each moment bringing new decisions. It was an eternal "dialogue between man and his circumstances." To know those circumstances was the job of the philosopher; to act by them, mankind...
...score of urologists, whom he calls his "boys." As a teacher, he was unmercifully stern. During one operation he rapped an assistant sharply across the knuckles with a surgical instrument. The assistant retaliated by swatting Schmidt right back. The old surgeon stared angrily at the "boy" for a moment and then muttered: "I didn't hit you that hard...
Siren of Atlantis (United Artists) may bring a moment of comfort to romantics who believe in the lost continent of Atlantis. It seems that the continent can be found this year somewhere near the Sahara Desert, within easy camel lope of a Foreign Legion post. Atlantis turns out to be populated by a carefree tribe whose principal activities are beating the tom-tom, drinking large quantities of a potent juice called arrack, and ogling the dancing girls. In their more solemn moments, they sometimes pause to embalm unwelcome visitors in molten gold...
...latest book, Holes in the Sky, continues along the same pleasantly minor way. MacNeice's poems are bedded in the conviction that western man is living in a bad time and that he must make the most of each immediate moment. With this moderate epicureanism, he values most the pleasures of physical existence, the "daydream free from doubt" which is art, and an attitude of simple respect for fellow men. On such a tentative basis men can still live in the modern world...