Word: nevertheless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nevertheless, if the new joint committee of college-wide theatre is formed it could be a significant aid to Harvard theatre, now, and when the new theatre is built. But the committee must realize that the play, not the power, is the thing...
...Clark was equally fearful for his two eldest boys, 7 and 8, who had been spending the night at his mother's home in nearby Creole. Nevertheless, steady-nerved and set of jaw, he worked without letup for more than 24 hours. At evening of the second day, word got through that the two boys had been saved by being lashed to the tops of oak trees. His wife, he learned, had survived by scrambling onto the floating roof of the collapsed Clark house, but the children, though she desperately tried to hold on to them, were swept away...
...Nevertheless the incredible elements in the film are at least partly redeemed by a number of touches that have the ring of reality and pathos--Marcelino, the orphan, brilliantly played by Pablito Calvo stealing bread from the kitchen, or playing with an imaginary friend, or the monks' touching ineptness with the baby. Juan Calvo as Brother "Cooky" does a beautifully perceptive job of acting, depicting the conflict between his vocation as a monk and his fatherly love of the boy. The worst and most untenable scenes are those of the actual miracle and of Marcelino's absurdly saccharine inquiries about...
...Jean, the valet, Eugene Gervasi gives an attractive, albeit uneven, performance. The obvious charm which Strindberg has poured into the character is visible, in Gervasi's rendering, but the cultivated polish and the sinister selfishness underneath are not. Nevertheless, when the script offers him a sharp line, Gervasi delivers it with grace and a fine sense of timing...
Alfred Kubin's two drawings, Edge of the World and Organ Grinder, are openly illustrative without being obvious. Next to the portraits by the much-praised Kokoschka with their hesitant drawing which often falls far short of any satisfying conclusion, Kubin's unpretentious drawings are refreshing. Nevertheless, whatever qualifications one makes in Kokoschka's case, his merits become evident when compared with the unhappy commercialism of Paul Kleinschmidt's At the Bar or Oskar Schlemmer's Three Figures...