Word: murmur
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...that took prizes in three European film festivals. Like moviegoers in London, where the picture is flourishing in its sixth month, they seem to like what they see: an audacious, worldly-wise comedy of sex. In both U.S. cities, the film drew cheers from the critics-and not a murmur of protest from any guardian of the public morals. But last week wicked old New York, which almost always gets first crack at a foreign movie, had still not seen La Ronde, and could not, by bureaucratic decree. The state censors, who burned their fingers this year on Roberto Rossellini...
...place has changed," he might murmur, and his words would be echoed by the shades of John Endicott, George Washington, and Daniel Webster--all of whom dwelt on the spot known today as Scollay Square...
...dinner, but Fred von Rekowsky, New York City "ham" radio operator, was determined not to turn off his set until he found out what the distant voice was trying to say. It seemed to want "New York only." The static was bad, but through it he caught a murmur of soft English: "Emergency . . . to try and save a child's life...
...real jolt came with the Ring cycle. When Wotan appeared on another dimmed-down stage in Das Rheingold, the murmur went up: "He has no helmet!" Muttered one oldtimer: "The stage is so dark I can't even see if he has a beard." (He had.) Shock followed shock. Wieland stripped his stages bare, cut down on all warlike gear save for a few essential spears. Siegfried's funeral pyre was left to the imagination. In Götterdämmerung, nobody got to see Valhalla burn: there was only a red glow in the sky, no sign...
Behind Closed Doors. The only party is Trujillo's Partido Dominicano, to which all Dominicans who want to get anywhere must belong; government employees pay 10% of their salaries into the party treasury. Behind closed doors, Dominicans curse the Era of Trujillo. But no one dares murmur in public: Dominicans have gone to jail for complaining about the weather...