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...Family got its TV start two years ago when Morse was summoned East to put together a TV show to compete with CBS's The Goldbergs. Morse recast his show "for the eye instead of the ear," and began to think in terms of visible characters. The result was so successful that Morse now considers the TV Family (which has a different cast, headed by Bert Lytell, and a different storyline) much more top-drawer than the radio Barbours. Says Morse: "Father Barbour has become much more human than the stuffed-shirt character I created for radio; Mother Barbour...
...from Herman Melville's story by Louis O. Coxe & Robert Chapman; produced by Chandler Cowles & Anthony B. Farrell) is a brave shot at a difficult target. On its own terms the sea story that constitutes Herman Melville's valedictory to life is certainly great enough. But to recast it for the theater means tackling a subject far deeper than the sea, grappling with a far-from-well-told story. It means handling utterance that now soars on wings, now walks on stilts. It means working with characters that are essentially black & white, must not become flesh & blood...
...what they are likely to do, Associate Justice Jackson expounded: "The Communist Party is a conspiratorial and revolutionary junta, organized to reach ends and to use methods which are incompatible with our constitutional system . . . The Communist program purposes forcibly to recast our whole social and political structure after the Muscovite model of police-state dictatorship . . . The Communist Party alone among American parties past or present is dominated by a foreign government...
...meet the standards proposed for them, poets may have to recast their whole techniques. But readers, on their part, can help themselves with a few simple exercises. Here, according tp Poet Church, is how to do it: . "Try humming the letter 'M' to yourself, gradually increasing volume until the lips are vibrating so forcibly that the whole head and shoulders are throbbing, like the breast of a nightingale. If this does not happen, then your production is too far back in the mouth. Bring the sound forward by picturing it as culminating on your closed lips; but lips...
...painter of the American scene, Hopper has only one peer, Buffalo's Charles Burchfield. Like Burchfield, Hopper can make even eyesores magnificent. Shorn of irrelevant details, stripped of sentimental gloss, dismantled and recast in his canvases, they become monuments to their time...