Word: silent
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...along with the Reds only to a point. The top anti-Communist influences are labor leaders and the Roman Catholic Church. Last week, in a rededication to the faith that became a tacit show of strength against the Reds, a crowd of 200,000, including a subdued and silent Castro, paraded by torchlight into Plaza Civica for midnight Mass, paying homage to Cuba's patron saint, the Virgin of Charity. By radio Pope John XXIII voiced hope that Catholics would "save the Christian face of Cuba...
Lanza Sings Christmas Carols (RCA Victor Stereo). Tenor Lanza, who recorded this album in Italy not long before his death this fall, sings his carols straight, and they have rarely sounded better: Away in a Manger, Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, It Came Upon a Midnight Clear, Silent Night...
...regular sales force Eaton added a staff of "silent salesmen," as he called the works of art he assembled at Forest Lawn. The first of these was Edith Barrett Parson's Duck Baby, later followed by a vast sculpture group called The Mystery of Life, in which 22 figures watch a baby chick as it hatches out of an egg. From Europe, Eaton also brought back plans of three famous British churches-the one where Gray wrote his Elegy, the one where, according to legend, Annie Laurie prayed for her lost lover, the one where Kipling was (possibly) inspired...
There has been quite a conglomeration of talent at the Colonial for the past two weeks. Robert Anderson, author of Tea and Sympathy, has written a play called Silent Night, Lonely Night, in which two accomplished professionals, Henry Fonda and Barbara Bel Geddes, star. Peter Glenville has turned his considerable talents toward directing this production, and Jo Mielziner and Theoni V. Aldredge handle lighting and costuming...
...result of this impressive concentration of ability is an unmitigated stinker. If Silent Night ever gets to Broadway, as it seems likely to do, it should be one of the biggest bombs ever to explode on the great White...