Word: smaller
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ferry Marquand has enough of the hair-on-the-chest quality proper to a Savoy contralto, and Susan Stone makes the scene in a smaller role. But the singing in certain other roles encroaches on the eyebrow-raising, and conductor Danny R. Moates, equal to his responsibilities for the most part, has failed from time to time to give the members of his chorus much in common...
...single or even direct combination of answers in the film justifies Dassin's big question. The justification comes from an evocation of smaller questions, like that about fighting, and their probable answers. On this level, the story succeeds completely. The virtue in asking a "big question" lies in the fact that many smaller questions, subsumed, become answered...
...They selected the top 110 dancers from a total company of 250, including Ulanova's chief rival, Ballerina Maya Plisetskaya, who for rumored political reasons had not appeared in the West before. With them came 40 tons of scenery, scaled down to fit the Met stage (a third smaller than the Bolshoi's home stage), and a generous ham-perful of the meat-and-potatoes favorites with which the company regularly sells out its home season. Because of the difficulty of shifting the Bolshoi's ponderous sets on the Met's antiquated stage, the company abandoned...
Whether or not the "public image" bears changing, it is certainly true that the role of the prospective science student needs study. Nearly half of recent freshman classes have indicated a desire to concentrate in the sciences, but a considerably smaller percentage actually does. Any number of factors might contribute to the drop-off--a sudden discovery of the liberal arts, a discouraging decline in grades, or possibly the deglamorization of the role of scientist in a freshman's mind (just as a horde of students who list "writer" as an occupational preference end up lawyers and teachers...
...size of the individual school's delegation is getting smaller, at the same time the list of schools sending five or more students (including the bigger prep schools and the better public schools) has undergone a slight shift in favor of the private schools. Thirteen public schools contributed five or more boys to the Class of '58, only nine sent this many to '61. But in the same period, the number of prep schools sending five-man delegations rose from 19 to 25 (with 27 for the class of '60). Although public schools contributed more to '62 than to previous...