Word: paceful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tragedy is incomparably closer to achieving its original objective than it was when it opened in 1945. What makes the difference in this strangely improved production is the supporting cast, which has undergone a complete transformation since the opening. Gone are the foreign accents, the faltering diction, the awkward pace of the original Gertrude, Claudius, and Polonius; in their place an almost perfect supporting trio has appeared. As the queen, Doris Lloyd gives a performance which is remarkable for its interpretation of a difficult role; Henry Edwards keeps up a distinctly superior standard as the unsympathetic Claudius; and Miles Mallcson...
...Labor? Big Labor's successful strikes in 1946 had helped to build the pressures which blew the lid off OPA and the ceiling off prices. Government statistics showed that Big Labor's weekly income had more than kept pace with prices since 1941 (see chart below). Big Labor had won these gains at the expense of unorganized workers, old-age pensioners, and professional and white-collar workers...
...series of historical tapestries, "Ivan The Terrible" nevertheless remains impressive entertainment. If the episodic nature of the narrative is admitted, each individual sequence has independent unity of pace. The coronation of young Ivan, the sacking of Tartar Kazan, a deathbed scene which ably reproduces the oriental mysticism of medieval Russian Christianity, and the loneliness of Ivan's old age as his princes desert to the jackals baying around his borders--all these make striking individual images. Unfortunately, they are strung together in ponderous disunity and confusion...
...courses in the field are generally stiff and thorough. Men with a sizeable background in chemistry usually breeze through their first courses, but the pace gets progressively faster and the competition, notoriously grade-hungry, is enough to keep even a Conant on his toes...
Most of this is kidded with all the subtlety of a fire alarm, though Philip Coolidge, as the dyspeptic professor, offers some deft deadpan satire. But Barefoot Boy, like its predecessors, trades mostly on zip, pace, and the sheer commodity value of youth itself. It gets a fair measure of these; but the Abbott trademark is beginning to seem perilously like a rubber stamp. And Barefoot Boy is very much poorer than its predecessors in the matter of music, and not quite so peppy in its dancing...