Word: resulting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Scherchen displayed a conducting technique as precise and economical as the motions of a tailor threading a needle. In the climactic passages, he laid into his work with a vigor that set his white hair flopping. The result was a finely tooled performance, full of the nuances and dynamics that are Scherchen's stamp...
...past the opening scene's heavy-footed family frolic, the production made a softly bright delight of the land of the Sugar Plum Fairy. Avoiding the tricky camera shifts and closeups that most directors try when televising ballet, Director Ralph Nelson kept the episodes sharp, the camera steady. Result: an overall sense of gaiety and space. High point: Allegra Kent, crisp and crystalline as Dew Drop...
Even academically talented students, said Conant, "come away from such a brief exposure with very little residue" -and there are "too many unqualified students in these courses" who should never be there to begin with." Result: "State and national statistics on how many students are enrolled in language courses are meaningless. This point cannot be stressed heavily enough...
Predictable result: last week, after months of debate by Soviet educators and further eruptions from Khrushchev, the Supreme Soviet voted unanimously in favor of a sweeping reconstruction of the Red schoolhouse. Highlights of the change, which will get under way next September and be completed in three to five years...
...Crucible, Arthur Miller's angry drama of moral ideas and political implications, which ran for almost six months on Broadway in 1953. Unhappily, Playwright Miller tried to reason his demons out of existence with intellectual argument rather than exorcising them with literary magic and dramatic spells. As a result, a play that held an image for the ages became no more than a vigorous tract for the times...