Word: noon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kramer's recipe is to pick up a story shell of mollusk-like simplicity and crack it open almost raw to lay bare the flesh beneath. In Champion (1949), his hero was a heel who could hit, and would hit anybody to get to the top; in High Noon (1952), a lawman alone against four avenging gunslingers. The Defiant Ones, in terms of its plot, is equally spare: two men escape from a Southern chain gang and are hunted down by a sheriff and his posse. But from a stark, grimly witty script by Movie Newcomers Nathan E. Douglas...
...sensuous neopagan salute to raw nature-Seamarks reads a little like a drama put on for the approval of the gods on Olympus. A long section symbolizing union with the sea might pass for impassioned love poetry. The final evocation is one of renascence: "The javelins of Noon quiver in the gates of joy! The drums of nothingness yield to the fifes of light...
...Paar's schedule-for in his life, almost every night is opening night. Each show is preceded by a private warmup, ranging from gnawing anxiety to panic. During the hours of preparation-which must end in laughter or failure-Paar is probably doing his hardest work. At noon on a recent, typical pre-show day, Jack was prowling his barn-red twelve-room house in suburban Bronxville, N.Y. His breakfast had been spoiled by an unfriendly newspaper comment on the previous night's show; now he was worried about the coming performance...
University officials emphasized that all students must be out of their rooms by noon on Aug. 21 and that there will be no facilities will be in use after that date. The last meal at the Union will be served...
Reserve books for the weekend will circulate in Lamont at noon on Saturday and will be due at 9 a.m. Monday, according to Lamont officials. Reserve books circulating Friday will be due Saturday...