Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Athenians saw on stage twenty-five centuries ago but what they saw in the world and the cosmos as well. The masks of the actors bear a bizarre and wholly appropriate resemblance to the grotesque faces of the magnified reptiles and insects seen in the Brattle's introductory short subject. Tanya Moiseiwitsch has provided lighting, costumes, and a set too stark ever to suggest some transcendent tempering of the harsh natural order of things. And Yeats' translation of the chorus' last lines--"Call no man fortunate that is not dead./The dead are free from pain"--crystallizes the pessimistic fatalism...
...mysticism of their spiritual vision, in their equally mystical approach to nature, in the intuitive spontaneity of their form. Their religion and their form are one. They make aesthetic theory superfluous, and their natural intimacy with the forces of life make our fiddling with eroticism in art trivial. In short, the works leave one with the question, What might sophistication be if this is primitive...
...Ravenel explained it, the play was a short pass into his defensive zone. He was forced to run up to meet the ball, and in doing so collided with another Crimson defender, halfback Don Gerety. His injury was diagnosed as a mild concussion...
Industry's own production experts complain that they operate less efficiently with so many models. Says Mrs. Florence B. Anderson, design and feature coordinator for Norge: "Multiplicity means more down time for your dies, and more short production runs-and this can be very expensive...
...Monty is short with politicians, blunt with those who differed with him. But he shows a sense of humor even about war's more annoying cufuffles, i.e., flaps. And his reflections are diverting, whether he praises female nurses over male, defines the qualities of a good commander (including "an inner conviction which at times will transcend reason"), or sets down what a nation needs to survive the cufuffles of history ("a religion and an educated elite...