Word: twentieths
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gloria Swanson, David Niven and Alan Webb are starred in this production, and they all have their moments. Miss Swanson, fresh from being batted around by Jose Ferrer in "Twentieth Century," confirms the fact that she is a terrific ham. After a slow first act, she adjusts to the requirements of the "bon mot" dialogue, tossing off her lines with graceful aplomb. But she lags badly in the serious moments, gesturing wildly, striking majestic poses, and trying to act. Fortunately, there aren't many serious moments...
Arnold J. Toynbee, with a historian's perspective, wrote in the New York Times Magazine: "Can we guess what the outstanding feature of our twentieth century will appear to be in the perspective of 300 years? . . . My own guess is that our age will be remembered chiefly neither for its horrifying crimes nor for its astonishing inventions, but for its having been the first age since the dawn of civilization, some five or six thousand years back, in which people dared to think it practicable to make . . . the ideal of welfare for all a practical objective instead...
After every war, indeed after almost any period of high feeling, there is a time of reassessment. "The Desert Fox" is Twentieth Century Fox's contribution to this period. Its thesis is that of Desmond Young's book on General Erwin Rommel. That is, it tries to show that Rommel, a fine field general in any Army textbook, was at the same time a fine man who came to hate Hitler, one whose political naivete finally led to his suicide to save his wife...
...only thing Copland has been forced to bear with is the twentieth century. "You're stuck with your period, just as with your family," he says, not unhappily. "A period would have to be pretty grim not to find something in it worth composing." This fidelity to his own time is undoubtedly the reason for Copland's extraordinary influence on modern music. The dean of American composers has severed his ties with the romanticists; he writes his music to reflect the outside world rather than to rework the feelings of a past age. "You don't pick the music...
...forthcoming comedy production pokes fun at traditional fairy tales and twentieth century life. It begins an eight performance run at Sanders Theatre November...