Word: sad
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Ballet Theatre put on the trio's latest, Facsimile. The scene was described simply as "a lonely place"; the cast as "three insecure people" and "some integrated people." Choreographer Robbins described Facsimile as "serious and sad." It involved a lonely girl in a bathing suit (shapely Ballerina Nora Kaye) and two young men who come along and make love to her, quarrel over her and then leave her. The set was a sparse Daliesque landscape...
...someone had blundered. Theirs not to reason why, the students deployed themselves as per instructions to the designated hill. But the sad story of too little and too late was told all over again: map-master Raisz had misread...
Enraged Resignation. O'Neill said that he regarded his illness with "enraged resignation. Outwardly, I might blame it on the war. . . . But inwardly . . . the war helped me realize that I was putting my faith in the old values, and they're gone. . . . It's very sad, but there are no values to live by today. . . . Anything is permissible if you know the angles...
Buster Keaton was about to be a comedy star again, for one picture at the very least. The sad-eyed Great Stone Face of the silents was making his latest comeback try in Mexico where audiences prefer their comedians pathetic. Turned 51 last week, Keaton had just finished his first Mexican picture, hoped soon to make another. He looked about the same as ever, and so did the picture: The Modern Bluebeard, or My Trip to the Moon. It had everything from life-adrift-at-sea to mistaken identity and ordeal by cops...
Sighed Dr. Robert Felix, chief of the U.S. Public Health Service's mental hygiene division: "A most sad and unfortunate decision. If this philosophy were adopted in cases of chronic alcoholism, it would set psychiatry as well as medicine back a generation...