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Morris used Boylston's shallow stage to perfection. He kept the actors moving in a fluid and carefully planned ballet. Every time a step was taken, an arm raised, an eyebrow lifted, one caught a glimpse of the puppeteer behind the scenes. The balance between the medieval and the modern was made most strongly by Bill Wilder's ingenious score, which shifted gracefully from twelfth century ars antiqua to the twentieth century twelve tone scale. Shimizu's set was a black curtain whose space was miraculously filled with a few flowing white splotches; his props were colored cardboard; and even...
...freedom to criticize, to think and to judge in a society that identifies the criticism of Israel with antiSemitism. We are losing our sense of intellectual balance in believing that anti-Protestantism, anti-Catholicism and anti-Southernism are less deplorable than antiSemitism. They are equally deplorable, though certain shallow liberals would have us believe that anti-Semitism alone is objectionable...
Walter Heller: The basic curve of the economy now is a saucer - and very shallow. There is an upturn coming within the next three to six months...
Best from Abroad. Of the straight dramas, there are All the Way Home, which owes much of its poetic power to the James Agee novel, A Death in the Family; The Wall, awkwardly based on the John Hersey novel; Advise and Consent, lively but shallow theater drawn from the mountainously detailed bestseller; Face of a Hero (closed), based on a Pierre Boulle novel. The only original works attempting to reach any stature: Tennessee Williams' disappointing domestic comedy, Period of Adjustment, and Arthur Laurents' clever but empty Invitation to a March, Clearly the most provocative plays are all imported...
Advise and Consent. Equipped with an all-but-complete set of political chessmen, the shallow but suspenseful Broadway adaptation of the bestselling novel pushes rooks and pawns about with the greatest gusto...