Word: plays
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Burial Plans. It was clear, if it had not been before, that Nikita Khrushchev was a nimble-footed dictator who could skillfully play the cold-war game all the way across the board, from rocket rattling to peace-dove cooing, from the Summit to an all-out economic offensive. "We will bury you,'' he said boisterously in November 1956 at a Moscow reception, and the burial plans are many. And it is equally clear that against Khrushchev's threats the U.S. cannot be satisfied with mere counterprograms to Soviet programs, counterploys to Soviet ploys, counter-propaganda...
...under the direction of White House Science Aide James R. Killian Jr. of M.I.T. (see EDUCATION). Chief why: "Space technology affords new opportunities for scientific observation and experiment which will add to our knowledge and understanding of the earth, the solar system, and the universe." Defense and national prestige play their roles as well, but the scientists gave top billing to the one overpowering drive: the "compelling urge of man to explore and to discover, the thrust of curiosity that leads men to try to go where no one has gone before...
...like this. "For those who do not have a genius for the double task, there is another choice. This is simply to put their truth and their power in the service of a democracy instead of in the service of a tyranny. In a free society the scientist will play his role as citizen like anyone else. The new priest like the old priest will have to learn that, no matter how potent the mana that he commands, no matter how great his power and his truth, he is not vested with any peculiar authority to decide on its uses...
...French chateau, London's Old Bailey, a revolutionary Paris square with guillotine, and some 30 other sets, cutting from love duets to orgies of hate, CBS gave Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities a revival that all but burst out of the TV screen. The play roiled with revolutionary turmoil, rang with Dickensian speeches by such able players as Denholm Elliott in the role of Charles Darnay, Rosemary Harris as his wife, Eric Portman as Dr. Manette and Agnes Moorehead, who played Madame Defarge as if the revolution depended on it. But Tale was the finest hour...
...main parts are reasonably well played and sung. Actress Gaynor, who has a pleasant voice and a pretty figure, may very well satisfy the customers who did not see Mary Martin play the part. Actor Brazzi, whose songs are superbly dubbed by the Metropolitan Opera's Basso Giorgio Tozzi, is suitably virile as her aging lover...