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Weekend with Father (UniversaI-International) is put together with the simple precision of an equation in Algebra I. Van Heflin is a widower with two children (girls) and a dog. Patricia Neal is a widow with two children (boys) and a dog. Widower meets widow in Grand Central Terminal while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jan. 7, 1952 | 1/7/1952 | See Source »

Chartres' windows have made the cathedral world-famed. Among the earliest surviving examples of Gothic stained glass, they are also the best. Yet the men who created them were amateurs, who may have had some knowledge of enameling but had little or none of glass. They learned as they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: FAITH & WORKS | 12/24/1951 | See Source »

Two of the very competent group of performers were outstanding. Paul DesMarais played Copland's difficult Variations for Piano with finesse and precision. The work consists of a theme, eighteen separate but closely related variations, and a coda, and seems to be an intellectual exercise as much as an expression...

Author: By Lawrence R. Casler, | Title: The Music Box | 12/19/1951 | See Source »

For those acquainted with Spanish ballet, Jose Greco and his troupe will provide an evening of exciting, colorful entertainment. For Greco is a precision craftsman and an agile, graceful dancer as well. And his company is one of the best of the few performing Spanish dances in this country today...

Author: By Jonathan O. Swan, | Title: The Balletgoer | 11/30/1951 | See Source »

The least satisfying part of the program was Mozart's Symphonic Concertante for Wind Quartet and small orchestra, a graceful work which an orchestra cannot get across to the listener unless it plays with precision and delicacy. Heaviness in the string section and poor balance between soloists and orchestra resulted...

Author: By Lawrence R. Casler, | Title: The Music Box | 11/19/1951 | See Source »

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