Word: stolid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dame, also called "Bizarre, Bizarre," Director Marcel Carne dashes across the scene on his bicycle, gaily splashing mud on every English social cliche available. The hypocrite vicar, upstart servants and Scotland Yard all are thrown in to comment on the pitifully high state of English morals. Carne wraps stolid England up in a ball with one final commentary--the man in a hanging-mob who holds his child's hand with the greatest of social responsibility...
After three months with the 45 entries (all sent in anonymously), the judges picked Sinfonia Sacra, by Ramiro Cortés.* Last week, in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, Conductor Mitropoulos played Cortés' work with the Philharmonic-Symphony. Its first movement (Kyrie) was a slightly stolid development of an oId Mexican tune in slow tempo; its second (Sanctus) was as reedy and antique sounding as a drafty baroque organ; its finale (Dies Irae), driven by busy motoric rhythms, included some fine furious flights of imagination and a paraphrase of an ancient Gregorian Dies Irae...
...personal empire, is the chief of the Oriental evildoers. His flowing robes and turban do not quite succeed in converting him into an Indian ruler, but his perpetual and disdainful sneer gives a suggestion of Eastern inscrutability. Captain Carruthers, played by Roger Livesey, foils his plans with the legendary stolid determination of the British colonial officers. Livesey's characterization is so stereotyped that, at times, it almost sinks to burlesque. Somebody, however, usually shows up in time with a knife or a machine gun to keep the plot happily rolling and to leave any thoughts of character study forgotten...
...selection plunged the world. So much the better that Stanford University's Professor William Irvine should be the man to have made the attempt. U.S. biography has become world renowned for the depth and breadth of its research, but almost invariably it has paid for its weightiness in stolid writing and lack of imagination. Author Irvine (who proved his touch in 1949 with The Universe of G.B.S.) is one U.S. biographer to show that vast masses of research can be moved around with light-fingered dexterity...
Violence came last week to the usually stolid city of Brussels (pop. 960,000). Tens of thousands of demonstrators fought with police, some 80 were hurt, 1,000 arrested. It was the worst civil disorder since the Leopoldist riots of 1950, which preceded the abdication of King Leopold. At that time Belgium's powerful Roman Catholics were in power, and the Socialists did the rioting. This time the tables were turned, and the Catholics were the attackers...