Word: train
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Between 50 and 55 musicians will take the trip. The group will travel by either bus or train, depending on the funds finally available...
Posed, rhetorical scenes add to this poster effect, although nowhere does the rhetoric stop us from seeing: faces listen as a loudspeaker intones news of defeats, and statue mourners stand stiffly around the bodies of the dead in a train wreck...
...stows away in the beggage car he is riding in. Shura tells him that she already has a sweetheart, and after their adventures together confesses that this was a lie. They part, and Alyosha realizes too late that he loves her. Further delayed by the bombing of another train, he finally arrives home with only enough time to spend a few seconds with his mother before he must hurry back to the front and--as the narrator has already told us--death...
Alyosha is very nearly a stock hero. Certainly he possesses all the deadly virtues. But Ivashov plays the role gently, with humor (shrewdly bribing an officiously corrupt train guard, telling white lies to the father of the soldier whose wife is unfaithful), and humanity (when as last he meets his mother they squander their moment together in awkward small talk); he is convincing. Shura's part is acted with purity and directness. This young Russian actress has a face so lovely that I didn't even resent Alyosha's soppy flashback memories...
...varsity squad took the 1 p.m. train to New Have, and did not arrive until 2 p.m. Conditions in New Haven were so bad that reporters covering the contest had to take the players from the station to Payne Whitney Gymnasium in private cars...