Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Projects already started (to the point of pouring the concrete or laying the bricks) can be completed. But U.S. builders will have to abandon about $14 billion of construction now in the blueprint stage ($4 billion for expensive, non-veteran homes, $10 billion for theaters, office buildings, etc.). Said the Wall St. Journal: "The drastic order, if tightly enforced, will halt what is potentially the largest nonresidential building spree in history...
...These stages would be carefully scheduled. The U.S. would not give up its present monopoly of knowledge and equipment much faster than the rate at which other nations could develop their own atomic plants independently. The U.S. would not hand over another piece of knowledge or equipment until the Authority provided adequate security by mastering the previous stage of its job. If at any point the Authority broke down, the U.S. and other nations would be left with just about the same advantage (in stockpile of bombs, uranium plants, know-how, etc.) which they could expect to have...
Because in writing Henry V Shakespeare was much hampered by the limitations of his stage, there was heavy work for the one-man Chorus, who, in persuasive and beautiful verbal movies, stirred his audience to imagine scenes and movement which the bare and static Elizabethan stage could not provide...
Voice and gesture exchange Shakespeare's munificence for subtlety, but re main subtly stylized. Faces, by casting, by close-up and reaction, give Shakespeare's lines a limpid, intimate richness of interpretation which has never been available to the stage. One of the prime joys of the picture is the springwater freshness and immediacy of the lines, the lack of antiquarian culture-clogging. Especially as spoken by Olivier, the lines constantly combine the power of prose and the glory of poetry. Photographic per spectives are shallow, as in medieval paint ing. Most depths end in two-dimensional backdrops...
Died. Noah Beery, 63, veteran villain of stage & screen, elder brother of Cinemactor Wallace Beery; after a heart attack; in Hollywood...