Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...scientists remain adament in their stand, the United States may be eventually forced to drop its ruling against sharing atomic warheads. NATO's ground force is rapidly losing its power to unify individual nations, and such a spirit of overseas cooperation might be good. In any case, scientists and politicians alike must realize that a new age of nuclear armament has dawned--there are no easy answers on either side...
...Oona, Cathleen's foster-mother, Gail Kepner shows perfectly adequate control of a dull part, but her attention, understandably, often wanders away from it. Liam Clancy, who looks like a feckless young Irish poet, plays one, but with mere wistful lyricism; his voice lacks distinction as much as his spirit lacks life. Finally, the two devils, despite their appropriate looks, need shape, and are neither enticing nor sympathetic nor humorous...
...Canterbury Players on the whole have ravished both the letter and the spirit of the play. The group has chosen to use an insipid and unctuous modern rendition if the play, which obscures the beauty and the cleverness of the very early adaptation from the original Dutch, decked with a sparkling variety of rhyming couplets and an endearing archaism of language which is quite comprehensible to the modern...
...rest of the cast could have been understood and incorporated the childlike spirit and earnestness of the play that is killed by amateur histrionics, The Canterbury production could have been the success that the work deserves...
...Spirit of St. Louis. New York to Paris with Charles A. Lindbergh: Director Billy Wilder and Actor James Stewart make a good film about a great adventure (TIME, March...