Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pride and the Passion (Kramer; United Artists) succumbs to a common failing in modern movies-the curse of unrestrained bigness. Mightily successful as sheer spectacle. The Pride almost succeeds in personalizing its heroics, but its humans tend to get lost in what amounts to runaway mass movement. Not so strangely, the movie's true hero and source of its emotional appeal is a monster cannon whose ornate bronze undergoes triumphs and mortifications that flesh could never endure...
...gone with tonal-row composition. A 20-minute work, it is scored for "twelve dancers and twelve notes," calls for the largest orchestra since Stravinsky's Symphony in Three Movements (1945). The fast, heavily percussioned score is cast in patterns of enormous rhythmic complexity. In its sheer harmonic and rhythmic invention, its virility, its brilliance of orchestration, the work is among the most dazzling music Stravinsky has ever written. It has some of the down-to-earth excitement of The Rite of Spring, the buoyancy of The Wedding. It proves once again, in the words of Composer Aaron Copland...
Dean Lacey has pointed out, for instance, that the "sheer force of numbers" would prevent Harvard from holding an outdoor picnic for the entire sophomore class as Radcliffe did this spring. "I doubt if Mr. Trottenberg would want to serve chicken in the Yard," she said...
...Waltz That Broke My Heart (Gisele MacKenzie; Vik). Songstress Mac-Kenzie is sitting this one out, she tells the listener in her clear, unshaded voice, because the last time she attempted the waltz, it cost her that man. Her syrup-slow beat suggests that sheer lack of energy may have done...
...result was that the Government paid out some $260 million last year to farmers to take land out of production often after farmers had already tried to grow a crop on it and failed, either through natural causes such as drought, hailstorms or insect infestation, or by sheer neglect. To nobody's surprise, 1956 farm production set new records...