Word: versions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...started to collect a library when still in grade school, and with fanatic neatness insisted that the books must always be kept in exact order. His first pupil was his younger sister Carolyn. The first lesson was an early Adlerian version of evolution. Mortimer declared: "You ought to know the facts of life. First there are fish, then come monkeys, and then little girls. Mother will tell you the rest...
...most remarkable works of all time: the Requiem (4 sides LP). The music has all the passion and dramatic impact of a Verdi opera, and the soloists, Beniamino Gigli, Maria Caniglia, Ebe Stignani and Ezio Pinza, were all able to do it justice when this version was originally recorded in 1939. Conductor Tullio Serafin does his share with the Royal Opera Chorus and Orchestra of Rome. The recording is good...
This lyrical side was given full play--perhaps too full--in the musical version of Cry the Beloved Country which appeared a few years ago on Broadway under the name of Lost in the Stars. I have a feeling (I didn't see the play myself) that this emphasis on the lyrical side was at the expense of the social-side, or message, even as the movie loses the beauty by concentrating on the social tragedy. Probably no one will ever capture the full spirit of the book in the dramatic medium...
This is a personal objection to the movie version, which I do not ask the reader to share completely. As a matter of fact I have a suspicion that people who have not read the book may not notice the absence of the lyrical streak and hence not object to the movie version on this ground. But there are a number of technical weaknesses that can be attacked in something nearer to absolute terms...
Intellectually, then, it is important that all the major opinion be brought out and scrutinized. But the movie version inexplicably omits one whole school of thought, that of the semi-revolutionary natives, embodied in the colored pastor's brother, a great agitator in Johannesburg. This severely damages the intellectual balance of the Christian solution have only to defeat the relatively poor arguments of the white supremacists...