Word: obbligatoed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crisis of Civilization. Facts, as Lenin liked to say, are stubborn things. These facts ran, like an obbligato of doubt, under the great gunfire of victory. But what chilled every thoughtful American and Briton and warmed every watchful German was the knowledge that with military success in sight the Big Three were split apart as never before. The stubborn fact of Allied relations was that Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin were preparing for a second Big Three meeting,* not because it was convenient to hold that meeting now, but because the crisis among the so-called United Nations had reached such...
...half-hour film, Humphrey Jennings (The Silent Village, Listen to Britain-TIME, Sept. 13) tells the story of the British "capture" of this German song. He forecasts its future in a long gliding panoramic shot of London's postwar dockside market streets, where a honkytonk version creates an obbligato for a children's merry-go-round. There are adroitly timed stock-shots (best: the men of the supremely confident Afrika Korps riding through the ecstatic farewells of civilians). There are bits of irresistible comedy (best: the florid, juicy Italian-tenor version of the song; the whooping refinement...
Ever since Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky included an obbligato for cannon in its tumultuous score, the 1812 Overture has been considered something to shoot about...
...flashbacks narrated by an author (in the picture, Herbert Marshall), a doctor (Albert Bassermann) and others who knew the great man. The device worked out well enough in print. On the screen it is all but disastrous-especially since Adaptor-Director Albert Lewin has Maugham's book read, obbligato, almost word for word. The reading is excellent, but it freezes the action into little more than a set of magic-lantern slides...
...steaming woods that crowd the engineer-made airdrome on Bataan, the monkeys chattered a tuneless obbligato to the bright-plumaged birds. Below them, sweating hard and grunting often, men in grease-stained coveralls worked over a handful of pursuit planes -the last, bullet-chipped remnant of Douglas MacArthur's Air Force. Now, after days of ingenious patching, the P-4Os were ready...