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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...comparison test, hands down. He put together a half-hour quite different from his usual garrulous routines and his role as sometime host on NBC's Tonight. Instead, Producer-Writer Kovacs buttoned his lip tight and proved himself TV's most inventive master of pantomime, sight gags and sound effects. When he opened a copy of Camille, a female cough came out of it. He educed a knowing chuckle from the inscrutable Mona Lisa, and screwed up his rubbery face with Chaplinesque glee as Baby Doll rolled out of her famed crib. As Eugene the Clubman...
...Second Sight When John Howard Griffin was an Air Force sergeant in the South Pacific in 1944, a bomber caught fire on the ground. It exploded as Griffin was running toward it. Two weeks later, enemy bombs fell near the base, and Griffin gradually lost his sight. Doctors laid this to a blockage of circulation in arteries supplying the eyes. After the war, Griffin turned to writing books, which he dictated on a wire recorder, notably The Devil Rides Outside, a 1952 success about a man's tortured search for God in and out of a monastery. Three years...
...tension. Tolstoy's own brilliant literary counterpoint-in which he switched from peace to war scenes and back-was abandoned. All the peace was concentrated in the first part, all the war in the second, so that many of the figures in Part I suddenly dropped out of sight. Moreover, the libretto was narrative rather than dramatic, required whole passages of flat prose to be set to music, with the result that long stretches of the score were labored and discursive. In the war scenes, the opera stiffened with self-conscious patriotism, which Prokofiev illustrated with military airs that...
...that cotton gloves will become standard college track equipment. "It would be interesting to see the Dartmouth team wearing green gloves at the upcoming Knights of Columbus meet," said McCurdy. "Indeed, a gloved track meet, with Harvard wearing crimson, Yale blue, and Princeton orange, would be a most colorful sight," Farrell added...
...awkward dignity with which the proud old soldier must have recalled his years of service under Cortés. The book inevitably evokes Herodotus-another old soldier who lived to remember and tell-as Díaz begins: "I am an old man of 84 and have lost my sight and hearing. It is my fortune to have no other wealth to leave my sons and descendants except this, my true story, and they will see what a wonderful...