Word: stillness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tendency to talk in scientific analogies are part of his crusade to re-emphasize craftsmanship, rather than inspiration, in composition. He rejects entirely the esthetics of Romanticism, which define creativity as a mystical experience, writing down music drawn from the blue. He is impatient with those who still refuse to explore "twilight" areas in music such as melody. Everything can and should be analyzed...
...corpse in a cheap hotel is moved to track down the people in her fat address book and find out how she came to her sordid end. After Reporter Ladd finally "winds up the case," there are at least two unexplained murders and a heroine whose life story is still pretty much of a mystery. The journalistic technique constantly threatens to make the movie a good study of sleazy big-city life, but the story bogs down under the weight of flashbacks, synthetic mobsters and Gallup poll detection methods...
...thought and narration) has peppered The Woman of Rome with flashes of wisdom that seem like borrowed pearls as simple Adriana threads them: "We never get clear, definite changes in life; and those who do make hurried changes risk seeing their old habits come to the fore once again, still alive and as deep-rooted as ever." Those who want to read universal meanings into this couch-worn tale will have to do it at the level of amorality where only the Adrianas of the world can move with assurance...
...whole incident was hushed up by University police over the weekend, and the New Haven dean's office still won't reveal the names of the students involved...
Though I have never seen the Lamats in this play, I'm afraid I was occasionally haunted on opening night by their specters. Miss Farrand and Mr. Fletcher are polished and talented actors and need no apologies made for their performances--still, it occurred to me that "The Guardsman" is one of those plays which very much needs the kind of 'grandness' that the Lunts always bring to their parts. Without that quality, "The Guardsman" is just another pleasantly amusing comedy of the Continental genre, designed to flatter one with its naughtiness rather than honestly exhilarate as comdedy should...