Word: shaded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Italy's film industry grows, so do its troubles. In recent months the state, which holds the purse strings, has begun to pressure the industry to shade down its realism in favor of more "constructive" pictures which show the sunnier side of Italian life. It also faces a bigger danger in that the more it succeeds by being different from Hollywood, the more it may try to imitate Hollywood. So far, the Italians have steered clear of both perils, and their lusty young movie industry shows plenty of signs of further growth...
French Orchestral Masterworks (Minneapolis Symphony, Antal Dorati conducting; Mercury). Ravel's Pavane Pour une Infante Défunte and Debussy's Three Nocturnes receive clean, vigorous performances that are a shade too sturdy for their moods of fragile classicism and vaporous impressionism; the orchestra sounds fine in Berlioz' Roman Carnival Overture. Recording: realistic, with a wide range of volume...
...since colonial days, when the "common" was the hub of most New England villages, parks have played an important part in U.S. urban life. Fifty years ago (and even today in many localities), the traditional city park consisted of a generous area of well-kept green grass, sprinkled with shade trees and sometimes with flowers, gravel walks for strollers, hard benches for sitters, usually an iron or stone fountain, and often a wooden bandstand. Now the trend is toward parks which are useful as well as ornamental...
Meanwhile, under the shade of an historic tree, an old man-the proud bearer of a large Taft button-argued with a student over the ethics of waving a placard on such a sober occasion. "What's wrong with a placard?" the student asked, "Taft men are distributing political handouts." The old man pondered this, then tentatively suggested "That's communist tactics." He pondered a little longer, then, perhaps aroused by his own perception, suddenly began screaming "Communist tactics, Communist." Wilting fast, the student took up his placard and fled...
...mention of crickets is complete without a comment on its props. For instance, for the spectators there must always, be oak trees for shade, and deck chairs of a low enough pitch fro a mid-game slumber. For the game itself there must be a perfect oval field, sown with the lushest English turf; and for the players, there must be a bat, preferably a finely-sprung precision instrument autographed by some of the legendary greats of cricket. Also there must be compete game uniform, including immaculate white sneakers, white flannels, white shirt, and cap--each player wearing a distinctively...