Word: passione
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Echoes on a Cloud-a bull session on world problems between Helen of Troy, Empress Josephine and Joe Stalin, perched on adjacent clouds in limbo. Sample thought: "We'll divide this into East Cloudia and West Cloudia." Hecht himself played Stalin in full Red uniform with all the passion of a snowman in Siberia. Next week: Hecht as Casanova...
...Must Die (French). A powerful Jules (Rififi) Dassin version of The Greek Passion, Novelist Nikos Kazantzakis' attempt to show how the life of Christ coincides with the lives of all men in a condition of continuous Calvary...
...Odyssey: A Modern Sequel, by Nikos Kazantzakis. An epic arrow-flight of adventure, passion and soul-searching from the literary bow of Greece's late, famed man of letters...
...onstage forces properly was a tricky task, and Conductor Craft performed it brilliantly. Stabbing with a forefinger, lifting his shoulders in rhythmic shrugs, mouthing the Vulgate text in time with the singers, he shaped a performance of geometric clarity, suffused with a thoroughly moving air of penitential passion...
...Must Die (French). A powerful Jules (Riftft) Dassin version of The Greek Passion, Novelist Nikos Kazantzakis' attempt to show how the life of Christ coincides with the lives of all men in a condition of continuous Calvary...