Word: mortally
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Amen to your belated recognition of baseball's Mister Most, Stan Musial [May 17]. But what mortal (even Grandpa Musial) could have played in 23 All-Star games after only 21 major-league seasons, unless he happened to be the incomparable, switch-hitting George Herman Ruth Mickey Mantle Mays Ty Cobb Gehrig...
John Graham has similar problems as the Trumpeter. His scenes drag rather badly-possibly the fault of the script. Tom Adams is a boyish and pixiesque Mercury, helpfully advising his father on the mores of mortal love...
Then came Hitler. By 1945, when this Walt Disney picture begins, Allied bombs are bursting in the courtyard of the academy and Russian columns are rushing toward Vienna. The Lipizzan stallions stand in mortal peril, but the Führer refuses to let them leave the city-the move might be interpreted as an admission of defeat. Colonel Alois Podhajsky (Robert Taylor), commandant of the academy, rebelliously horsenaps his own herd, ships it to safety in an isolated village. So much for the stallions, but what about the Lipizzan mares? They are prancing through Bohemia like a bunch of damn...
...writers rather than travestied by our poor selves." This Platonic ontology can be argued, but Plato himself was in no doubt that this theory was the enemy of art. Reality may be like the figures in Plato's famous cave, where only the shadows may be seen by mortal eye. But, it is just those shadows that are the substance of art, and the business of malting a play of their flickering forms is still quite a trick...
Caldwell's mortal wound comes from the indifference of students at Olinger (read Olympus) High, and the casual thunderings of its Principal Zimmerman (read Zeus). He is, moreover, tormented by the teasing lechery of Vera (Venus), the gym teacher, and the unreliability of his old Buick, which must be fixed by Vera's husband Hummel (Hephaestus), a cuckolded garage keeper...