Word: scene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Orval Faubus worked tirelessly against both law and order in his campaign to keep the city's schools lily-white, Editor Ashmore became a rallying point for Southern moderates, won a Pulitzer Prize for his calm editorial voice. Last week, surveying Little Rock's now-peaceful school scene, Harry Ashmore, 43, announced that he is leaving to take on a new job as consultant to the Fund for the Republic's Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions in Santa Barbara, Calif...
...rarely been seen by U.S. audiences, although a few first-nighters might remember it as belonging to the guttily amoral Corsican truck driver in the film Wages of Fear. At 37. Singer Yves Montand is France's highest paid entertainer, the hottest music-hall performer to hit the scene since the end of World War II. Last week, appearing in the open-necked brown shirt and slacks that are his trademark, Yves (pronounced Eve) Montand made his first U.S. appearance at Manhattan's Henry Miller Theater-and proved the bravos that he has had in Europe...
...Wayne's Texas-sized epic, The Alamo, should be a smash; the $8,000,000 budget includes a full-scale replica of the famous mission built on the flats of Brackettville, Texas. But could it be that piety is also needed for a boffo picture? Before the first scene was shot last week, cast and crew assembled at the re-created Alamo and listened to a special prayer recited by the Rev. Peter Rogers of St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, San Antonio. "O Almighty God . . . today we ask thy blessing, thy help and thy protection, as once...
...finale, the war was over and the world peaceful but so boring that the trainer decided to release the flea again and start the cycle all over. Although most critics found the atonal opera "a joke in bad taste," some had kind words for its opening striptease scene executed to a honky-tonk blues refrain that seemed to summarize the composer's sense of futility...
Gathering Place. To keep on working while enjoying a change of scene, Aalto maintains three bases of operation. One is an office in downtown Helsinki, another his studio on the outskirts, which he calls "the fortification of quiet"; still another is his island hideaway, where he can plunge into the lake on a moment's notice with his pretty new wife Elissa. She is an architect herself (as was his first wife, Aino, who died in 1949), works on his staff...