Word: version
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Group 20 is fortunate to have for this role the services of Max Adrian, who scored this past season as Dr. Pangloss in the Hellman-Bernstein musical version of Candide. He romps through the role with infectious panache. He hits the right tone at his first entrance, appearing in a properly hideous green-and-red costume that clashes with his black-and-orange shoes. He belches, eats and picks his teeth with his fingers, talks with food in his mouth, and makes the most of a vulgar, cackling laugh...
...Ominous Word. Why all this airing of trouble and simulated display of tolerance? Even in the bowdlerized official version of Mao's major "secret" speech, the ominously evocative word "Hungary" cropped up with a frequency which suggested it was much on the chairman's mind. Indicative of Mao's fears was his none-too-veiled reference to popular resistance to Chinese rule in Tibet: "Because conditions in Tibet are not ripe, democratic reforms have not yet been carried out there...
...moment last April, the Kadar regime let the world glimpse its version of justice. In the course of secretly trying some 5,000 "criminals" (at least 113 of whom have been sentenced to death), Kadar decided to hold an open trial of eleven young Freedom Fighters. For his winning examples he chose Medical Student Ilona Toth, Editor Gyula Obersovszky, Playwright Jozsef Gali and eight others including an army lieutenant, charged them with having murdered an AVH man who had discovered that they were putting out a mimeographed revolutionary sheet called We Live! (TIME, April...
...dress rehearsal next day stretched nine minutes too long and therefore called for cutting. Said Producer Colligan: "Now in the final version, we're killing that little talk you make about the budget...
Wrote a legal historian: "What Shakespeare has been to literature, what Bacon nas been to philosophy, what the translators of the Authorized Version of the Bible have been to religion, Coke has been to the public and private law of England." What goes for English law goes for American, too. Catherine Drinker Bowen, who wrote about lawyer-patriots before (Yankee from Olympus, featuring Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, and John Adams and the American Revolution), has produced an outstanding biography of Sir Edward Coke-it appeared briefly on the bestseller lists-in which greatness of personal achievement is framed...