Word: musicically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...taken? He is to be taken, quite simply, for what he is; to wit, he is to be taken for a vastly engaging virtuoso of American prose style who is full of ideas, most of them stimulating and some of them convincing, on religion, psychology, music, letters, politics, education, the South, women, and sundry related topics. His ideas are often largely nonsensical. But they are never completely so. You may be reading through the wildest moments of a polemic against democracy, wondering if he is ever going to stop jabbering, when suddenly he does just that. Suddenly a paragraph intrudes...
...Snyder, in a famously atrocious crime of the Twenties, with really extraordinary perception. He has a piece called "The Critical Process" which is the most illuminating discussion of criticism I have ever read. And he writes about Beethoven's Third Symphony with such excitement that if you can read music, you will be impelled to hunt up a score of the "Eroica" and see for yourself what he is taking about. Nobody else for Bernard Shaw, has written of music with such vitality...
From an artistic standpoint, "A Touch of the Times" has much so its credit. Photography has been under the direction of Hugh C. Foster '49, an Academy Award winner for his camera work on the Antarctic documentary, "Secret Land." And in place of running dialogue, an original musical score has been completed by a promising local composer. Yoder is highly enthusiastic about this music, and terms it one of the movie's biggest assets...
...half that stayed home ought to make the trip while it still can. Astaire and Rogers assure any musical of success. When you add to them the comic talents of Edward Everett Horton, Eric Blore, and Helen Broderick and the music of Irving Berlin ("top Hat," "Isn't This a Lovely Day to Be Caught In the Rain," and "Dancing Cheek to Cheek") it's like insuring the Rock of Gilbraltar against erosion...
Then too, the score for "Top hat" is way out of the league of the newer music. But the real difference between the two picture is that in "Top Hat" the slick sophistication of Astaire and Rogers dominate the show; in the "Barkleys" it hardly survives the smothering effects of a sentimental vulgarity almost implicit in the term musical, "extravaganza...