Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like its Broadway predecessor, the new movie called Tea and Sympathy concerns a prep school housemaster and his wife and a student whose name is Tom Lee. Both tell of the suffering felt especially by these three when the boy is accused homosexuality. But the resemblance doesn't go too far. The people who adapted the play to the screen--including Robert Anderson, the playwright and now the script writer--have succeeded in making the prejudices which victimized the boy appear ridiculous. The result of their diligence is a movie that is limited by this intention. The film is uncomfortable...
...present size of the Army (14 combat-ready divisions, 5 in training) has led to speculation about its ability to fight the limited wars that may arise. Both General Taylor, the Army's present Chief of Staff, and his predecessor General Ridgway, doubt that it is large enough. In the light of their statements, present Defense Department plans to cut the Army further are alarming. The mobile, "self-sufficient" divisions, able to move anywhere in the world on short notice, have been slow in developing. These divisions (the 101st Airborne is one) are an example of what a balanced force...
...obvious advantage of the musical version over its newspaper predecessor is its choreography. Easily handling a stage that is nearly always teeming with hillbillies or, on one occasion, Washington blue bloods, Michael Kidd continually constructs exuberant displays. With wit, ballet, acrobatics, and pantomime as tools, he creates a life on stage that is a pleasure to watch. At his worst, his hand is merely too obvious, owing to the sometimes overprofessional polish of his characters' motion; at his best, as in the very amusing Sadie Hawkins Day chase, his work is a tour de force...
...that he could lift government service from the level at which Truman's stubborn devotion to his political friends had left it. Public criticism and court decisions have since forced the Administration to soften some of its initial harsh policies, but the fact remains that the President, like his predecessor, has failed to use his office to create a climate in which government service can be a vital and creative career...
...Rockies and even managed to upset the angling fraternity by taking 40 trout without a licence in a single day. He left natural resources under the infrequently benevolent hands of McKay who eventually resigned to run for the Senate against Wayne Morse. Fred Seaton replaced McKay, and continued his predecessor's policies...