Word: tone
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...much to say that there is "real hope" for disarmament progress with the Russians. President Eisenhower told his news conference last week; nonetheless, the fact that Moscow has taken a "different tone" and is becoming "more serious" at the U.N. disarmament talks in London gives ground for guarded optimism. Among the reasons for the different tone: the Soviets, "as well as all the rest of the world, are feeling the pinch" of maintaining "these tremendous military organizations." However, warned Ike, "this doesn't mean that they are not . . . going to want just as big an advantage out of [arms...
...podium and launched into a Cello Concerto newly written for him by his old friend Sir William Walton. If the piece itself seemed to ramble like a sun-warmed cow through sprawling masses of musical foliage. Piatigorsky's playing of it was a marvel of taste and tone. Under his sensitive hands, the cello sang like a deep-throated bell, soared melodically, sank to a velvety whisper; in the more rhapsodic passages it seemed to shiver with musical delight. Cellist Piatigorsky, 54. had never seemed in better form...
...some raffish first-act comedy, and very fitfully thereafter, when Wendy Hiller and Franchot Tone give urgency to O'Neill's clouded scenes, or give a face to his sense of lostness, A Moon stirs to life. But mostly it lies dead; and something a little too decent in everyone's basic motives makes A Moon soft as well as enfeebled. There is no tumble and toss of sick, bitter, angry, thwarted, even petrified emotions. Everywhere there is a sense of O'Neill's honest compassion, but nowhere is there anything incandescently imagined or inextinguishably...
Carmen Capalbo's staging, like the acting, is wholly in the service of the play. Irish Actor Cyril Cusack is richly humorous and yet realistic as Josie's sly, disreputable father. At his best, Franchot Tone is a memorably quiet Jim. Wendy Hiller, not seen on Broadway since The Heiress, again gives a beautiful performance, again raises, through no fault of her own, a small demur. Glowingly vital and magnetic, Actress Hiller could never really quite seem a colorless, mousy heiress, nor seems now an oversized half-freak. Her acting brings some of its most resonant moments...
...composers' concerts, drama, and opera, an exhibition of undergraduate art is now added. It is a culmination of a series of House exhibits that took place when the spirit moved. Dudley House is to be congratulated for taking the patriotic and parochial tone out of these affairs making this a college-wide exhibit. If this is continued annually, Dudley will make an important contribution to Harvard life...