Word: prose
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...voice and some foggy images made it across the sea. (NBC will try again next week.) Elsewhere, World fared better, e.g., a noisy jazz session in a monastery with Brother Boyce Brown on the sax. But the whole panorama was marred by languid Narrator Dave Garroway's overripe prose ("Filter music through the soul and it becomes the clear wine of communication...
...Silent World, which since its publication in 1953 has sold almost 500,000 copies in the U.S. alone, Cousteau composed a poetic primer of underwater exploration. In this film Cousteau has tried to fill the screen with the same "rapture of the great depths" that surged through his prose. Unfortunately, his hand is not so sure with a camera as it was with a pen. The Silent World is just another H2Opera...
...primary problem is that, as in so many Advocate stories, the reader, when finished, is hard put to attach any significance to his recent adventure. Emotionally, he does not give a damn, and intellectually he is either somnolent or at loose ends. It is perhaps not necessary that prose have a point, but it seems reasonable to demand that it achieve an effect, as Ratte does in the "Lawrison" piece. It also seems reasonable to require that in a piece about two people some coherent picture of these people should emerge...
...director, and certainly Aaron has one, whatever its validity. But the rightness or wrongness of the argument in no way compensates for the fact that the tone is incredibly pompous (Aaron is good, but is he so good that he can afford to be pompous?) and that the prose often has a quality which could most adequately be described as best read before dinner. ("The 'soul' of the actor is the hardest thing to find.") Then, too, one wonders whether the piece is educational in intent, or perhaps a defense before the fact...
After the disappointment of the first issue, however, there is hope for better things. If the editors of the magazine can devote a month to a genuine answer to i.e.,--an attempt to answer arguments and dispute tenets rather than an attack on prose style and an attempt to discredit their competitors,--they will have served the community well. If the interlude allows them to collect enough material to fill an issue with material worth reading (not material which is "the best we could get"), an even more valuable service will be rendered...