Word: movement
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Charging the movement with pronounced anti-Semitism, she declared that it uses "the same language as the Nazis," and revealed that it was so powerful in Boston politics that she found great difficulty in finding anyone of importance to oppose it in public...
...cast as Josef and Maria Tura, the leading actor and actress of Poland. He is an actor who revels in Hamlet; she is a devoted wife who enjoys an occasional flirtation. The swift destruction of Poland halts their theatre careers and they become enrolled in the underground movement. From there on the film concerns the extremely clever plotting of the group of actors to outwit the Gestapo and a fake Polish envoy...
Backing the non-profit consumers co-operative movement, throughout the country, the Harvard Teachers Union is co-sponsoring a series of three technicolor films on the subject with the Cooperative Food Stores. They will be shown next Monday at 8 o'clock in New Lecture Hall...
...should be. Instead the author has presented the more fundamental battle between the two ways of life--the new Nazi regime of force and the previous easier life of freedom and simplicity. Her hero, an anti-Nazi who has come to this country to raise funds for the underground movement in Germany, fights only to restore the Germany which he loved, which he wants his children to love. In his mind the struggle is between a way of life known to be good and one he believes to be bad. He risks his life not for some far-flung plan...
...mood most of all in drama; plot, situation and character are all incidental to the creation of the proper feeling. A play, for him, must excite as music does, in a sweeping, comprehensive whole. As he has pointed out, one does not stop Beethoven's Seventh in the Second Movement to inquire if the third oboe player has honorable intentions toward the second violins. Saroyan's fantasies do not investigate any of the more common phases of drama; he projects a pure simplicity and nobility of spirit and does it far better than most other dramatists today. But his plays...