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...continue" with Russia. The West agreed. He wanted some phrases associating the international atomic authority with disarmament. The West worked out some suitably vague language, but refused a direct tie. "We think this atoms-for-peace proposal will lead the world away from war because it is a new prism through which we can look at the problems of the world," said Lodge. "It is a new place at which to begin. But we must not bog down one proposal by tying it to another...
...zenith. This picture, projected back through the same type of lens, would recreate the original scene; the camera could project downward from the center of the theater, and could include two such lenses in a polarized system on a common axis for 3-D; also the vibrating-prism system of Citizen Kane for all-in-focus effect . . . A few problems remain (beside the presently unsolved nicker effects, etc., emphasized by 3-D), such as-which is the best way offstage? Into a subterranean cavern below the camera, or over the horizon, or behind the nearest hill or building...
Brazil's Candido Portinari takes a more traditional approach to the subject. His sketch for the first of two 46-ft.-high murals for U.N.'s Manhattan headquarters (opposite) is a prism through which he sees war as a curse on all mankind. Instead of germs and peace doves, Portinari shows the four horsemen of the Apocalypse, dashing headlong on a mad, zigzag course through humanity. Hyenas roam his shattered world and lines of sobbing mothers bend in prayer for their lost sons...
...juvenile leads are handsome and debonair, while Dame Edith Evans makes a formidable Lady Bracknell and Mar garet Rutherford a comical Miss Prism...
...tolerance is not the realization that there are values and goals other than their own, ones worthy of respect, indulgence, and protection. To them tolerance ends when its products approach views contrary to their own. They view every issue, be it cinema or what have you, through the same prism, a prism which blots out all but one consideration: racial tolerance...