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...Conrad Rooks. He decided to make a movie about himself. The result is Chappaqua, named after the Westchester County commuters' village where Rooks spent what he considers the only happy years of his youth (from 8 to 13). The film is an 82-minute phantasmagoric apologia pro sua dolce vita in which the ex-junkie-alcoholic takes himself into and then out of the world of addiction and related vice...
Vellucci Pro Sua...
This is neither a young man's manifesto nor an old man's apologia pro vita sua, but an interim report on himself by a clever, likable man of 35. British Novelist-Critic John Wain was 20 when Germany surrendered, and has thus spent his entire maturity on this side of the Hitlerian watershed. This unusual book suggests that most British intellectuals of his generation have settled into the admirable pattern of cultivated men of good will. Not for Wain the grandeurs, miseries and plain fuss of ideological commitments that vexed the '30s. If there...
...betrothed, Elvira, who goes insane. Soprano Sutherland's triumph last week was that she made her audience overlook the opera's gothic absurdities and focus on its moments of real beauty, including Elvira's pre-wedding aria, "Son vergin vezzosa," and her splendid "Qui la voce sua soave," which introduces a mad scene every bit as effective as the more famous one in Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor. Her voice was precise, agile, light-textured and luminous. The London Observer praised her "extraordinary beauty of tone,'' and the Daily Mail found in her performance...
Chief of Government Pierre Laval was, by reports, in Paris. With him he carried the bulky manuscript of his Apologia Pro Vita Sua. On it he reportedly had worked for a year, scribbling hundreds of pages to prove that he was first & last a Frenchman with the interests of France at heart, after that a pro-Allied, anti-Nazi Frenchman who did the best he could...