Word: shocks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Teacher, Quick. In the U.S., at least, inertia has been fostered by a crushing weight of institutional responsibility. In Loyola's time, the Jesuits were a mobile spiritual commando of shock troops, kept free of routine and organization to serve God and the Pope as need arose. Today, the American provinces are hard put to staff an awesome ecclesiastical machine that supports in the U.S. alone, 28 colleges and universities, 51 high schools, 24 national publications, and ten seminaries. As a result, the scholarly careers of promising men are sometimes delayed or curtailed by immediate institutional needs. "The percentage...
Opulently photographed in and around a crumbling English abbey, Ligeia, like its predecessors, offers meticulous decor, shrewd shock techniques, and an atmosphere of mounting terror that fails to deliver on its promise. Again, the cream-centered menace is Vincent Price, an actor who appears to be swooping around in a cape even when he stands perfectly still. His first wife dead, Price marries a breathtaking beauty (Elizabeth Shepherd) and takes her on a honeymoon that includes a stop at Stonehenge. Back home he resumes his necrophilic fancies until, as usual, a great raging holocaust consumes castle, corpses, black cats, Price...
...easier to treat After the Fall like any other new American play, now that the shock and reverence of Arthur Miller's self-revelation have died. The author's narrow face stared at you from the newspapers and magazines before the New York opening almost 17 months ago, and with his name came, whispered, Marilyn Monroe, now the late Mrs. Miller. So you felt like a privileged voyeur when you took your seat in the Lincoln Center Repertory Company's temporary theatre in Washington, especially when you learned that the play's director was a character in the play...
Still, the debilitating shock is there, and this touring company skillfully meets the play's demanding range of emotion. Charles Aidman's Quentin grows quietly, barely changing tone in most of the first act, until his final scene with Louise. The actor's mental and physical exhaustion by the end of the three hours on stage, mirrors that of the character, who has relived the most horrible moments of his life. Judi West as Maggie creates, in her first scene, the uneasiness we should expect even without our foreknowledge of Maggie's suicide. She is a pitiable, blond rag doll...
Pratt wrote in the foreword to the report "that it seems only appropriate to honor John F. Kennedy, whose brilliant career was cut short so tragically. The President's death was an unbelievable shock to all of us, as reflected in his classmates' many references to him in this report...