Word: otto
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...minutes, Anatomy is longer than the subject warrants, but the pace seldom slackens-thanks to the competence of Director Otto Preminger. The actors-particularly Stewart and Remick-handle themselves like the glossy professionals they are; but a number of important scenes are grandly swiped by that slick old (68) amateur, Boston Lawyer Joseph N. Welch, who plays the judge almost as memorably as he played himself on TV during his historic fracas with the late Senator McCarthy...
Porgy and Bess. George Gershwin might not have been overjoyed with the heavy, static, wide-screen pageant that Producer Sam Goldwyn and Director Otto Preminger have fashioned from his folk opera but nothing can prevent the show's songs from tingling the spine. Standout performances: Sammy Davis Jr., Pearl Bailey...
...worst thing about Goldwyn's Porgy, though, is its cinematic monotony. The film is not so much a motion picture as a photographed opera. Just to make sure the customers get the point, Vienna-born Director Otto Preminger has directed most of it as though it were a Bayreuth production of Gōtterdāmmerung, Choruses march and countermarch; actors lumber woodenly about the stage, obviously counting their steps, and then suddenly take up a stance and break into song. And for some strange, wrong reason -perhaps to give the show an elevated, operatic tone-the actors speak...
July 23: Otto J. Brendel: "The Classical Style in Modern...
Some of the members of the faculty, which includes outstanding members of the Harvard faculty and visitors from universities throughout the world, are: Prof. Stephen K. Bailey of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University; Prof. Otto J. Brendel of Columbia University; Prof. Henry C. Darby of the University of London; Dr. Edmund J. King of the University of London; Prof. Allen Tate of the University of Minnesota; Prof. Hans J. Morgenthau of the University of Chicago; and Prof. C. Crane Brinton of Harvard University...