Word: moods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Family Album," the remaining play, is a sentimental period piece. Its mood is bittersweet, and Coward has written one of his best bittersweet songs for it--a waltz entitled "Hearts and Flowers." And if it is not so neat as the opener, it is also nowhere nearly so superficial...
...thousand men of Harvard had a wonderful time. After it was all over they marched, sang, deuced, and shouted their way back into the gray and gold dusk of Cambridge Towne and a mood of complete reenchantment. Princeton was a long week in the past: Yale only a short week in the future...
Cineminister Dryer conducts the nondenominational services for his films and preaches the sermons himself, which are illustrated with his own mood shots of nature (e.g., a glimpse of Yosemite's Half Dome: "God is the Rock of Ages in the midst of a confused world...
...Projection. A third of the 60 paintings in last week's show were abstractions which reflected his growing interest in geometry (he used a ruler and divider in planning them). "Abstractions for abstraction's sake," he still insisted, "are a sterile business. When the artist permits the mood of the spectator to take full control he abdicates his function. But my abstractions are projections of reality." Among the more obvious "projections": a Mutilated House which looked like a cement block oozing blood, and The Face of Treason, a successfully nauseating tapioca of eyes in space...
André Gide had adapted the dialogue for Franz Kafka's dark parable, The Trial, with painstaking exactness ("I effaced myself"). To convey the uncanny mood of Kafka's story (about a man tried for an unnamed crime and eventually executed by the officers of an unnamed court), Actor-Producer Jean-Louis Barrault (Children of Paradise) had staged it with imagination...