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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jane Cronin plays the meek sister quietly, almost mutely, almost ideally. Her searching, nearly childlike smile needs no words to help it unfold the character's frail tenderness. Olympia Dukakis, as the maid who is at one point compared to a walrus and who never travels without her goldfish, often squawks excellently, although her accent seems queasy. Her face is powerful. Richard Gavin plays the nephew with grace, youth, and a good balance of strength and weakness; he makes an effective contrast to the old judge, played by the director. Ree Christiansen, the fierce sister, screws her icy nerves...

Author: By Larry Hartmann, | Title: The Grass Harp | 1/24/1958 | See Source »

...revolution in recordings : sound-plus-picture. Engineers are now working on a disk that will be keyed to a picture to be played on a television screen. The audiophile will see Harry Belafonte singing at the Waldorf as he listens to him, will watch the great operas unfold onstage as the music pours from his phonograph...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Singing Land | 12/23/1957 | See Source »

...ending is somewhat of a shock, and yet once it begins to unfold, the entire climax is obvious. Angelo falls in the well, thus isolating the dramatic conflict between Agatha, Pia and Sylvia. Their love for Angelo finally devolves into an unsure hatred of him; yet each woman wants Angelo, and in the end no one gets...

Author: By Frederick W. Byron jr., | Title: Passionate Summer | 10/23/1957 | See Source »

...took a new breed of adventurer-explorer to bring the world to Middle Africa and to unfold its wonders for the world -men prompted not by simple greed but by human compassion and scientific curiosity, drawn onward by the land itself. There was the discoverer of Victoria Falls, David Livingstone, the gentle Scottish medical missionary who went to Africa because an opium war in China kept him from achieving his ambition to go there. There was Henry Stanley, a British-born U.S. reporter, who went to Africa in search of a feature story for James Gordon Bennett...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle Africa: Cradle of Tomorrow | 5/20/1957 | See Source »

THIS week, TIME'S editors unfold one of the great stories of our era. The Age of Research, they call our day, and a venturesome and productive age they show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Publisher's Letter, Jul. 9, 1956 | 7/9/1956 | See Source »

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