Word: soldiering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from the entire Riviera. Returning to London, Lady Docker huffed that she was "at war" with Rainier-"I call it the Kremlin down there." Added Sir Bernard: "We are not going back to that dreary little country. What is Monaco but a Coney Island for the winter, a tin-soldier outfit...
...author of this Candide-like scrap of philosophizing is one Joseph Schweik, private first class in the Czech army during World War I. Cheerful Sad-Sack Schweik first turned up back in the 1920s in Czech Novelist Jaroslav Hasek's antimilitary satire, The Good Soldier Schweik. Last week he popped up on the stage of Manhattan's City Center in the premiere of the late Robert Kurka's operatic version and won a warm welcome from audiences in the New York City Opera's spring season of contemporary American works...
...Soldier Schweik was the ninth opera and the only premiere of the ten scheduled by the New York City Opera in its five-week all-American season. Still to come: Carlisle Floyd's Susannah (TIME, Oct. 8, 1956). Underwritten by $105,000 from the Ford Foundation, the season spans the last 20 years of U.S. operatic production with a repertory drawn from more than 200 submitted works. Among the composers represented were such veterans as Douglas Moore (The Ballad of Baby Doe), Leonard Bernstein (Trouble in Tahiti), Gian Carlo Menotti (The Medium, The Old Maid and the Thief), plus...
Builders' Pay. At Adullam, not far from where David battled Goliath, busloads of Hungarians and Iranians arrived last week. Israeli soldier girls, led by Lieut. Yael Dayan, daughter of the former chief of Israel's armed forces, helped them move their belongings into the neat, three-room concrete cottages on the spring-green Judean slopes. There was still the familiar hard readjustment: "I lived in a third-floor apartment-and now look," exclaimed a clerk from Budapest, thrusting out hands blistered by operating a pneumatic drill with a road-building crew. But now newcomers are guaranteed 250 days...
...altogether than the German boy. he fights for survival and for his unit, asks no questions and gets no answers. Brave, natural, extraverted, he probably exemplifies what was best in the U.S. fighting man of World War II just as Brando speaks for what was best in the German soldier. As a matter of fact, the script is rather too strongly inclined to see the best in people and events. The war clouds are dark indeed, but somehow they usually turn out to have a silver lining. And toward the end the whole film goes gargling noisily down the vulgar...