Word: victor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...season included the tryouts of two new plays, which sandwiched a hammy production of The Happiest Millionaire (with Victor Jory). The first tryout was Sweet and Sour, by Florence Lowe and Caroline Francke. It proved to be just one more play about the younger generation's attempt to deal with an intractable old father. The authors obviously thought they were writing the Jewish counterpart of Life With Father, but their play will never have 3183 performances on Broadway. They fell into most of the traps that Schulman avoided in A Hole in the Head. The old Jew was played...
...century by N. P. Likhachev, whose collection is now in Leningrad's Russian Museum, and I. S. Ostroukhov, whose collection is now in Moscow's Tretyakov Gallery, laid the basis for scholarly study. Cleaning them for the first time in centuries was a revelation. Says Soviet Expert Victor Lasareff: "In place of dark, gloomy icons coated with a thick layer of varnish, [viewers] beheld glorious works of art, radiant with colors as bright as precious stones. They blazed with the flame of cinnabar; they caressed the eye with their subtle shades of pink, violet and golden yellow...
...serious about it was a rare thing in those days -he was quickly tapped for great things in the world of left-wing propaganda. He went on his pilgrimage to the poor on commission from the influential Left Book Club, run by a notable socialist triumvirate - Publisher Victor Gollancz, London School of Economics Professor Harold J. Laski and John ( The Coming Struggle for Power) Strachey. When Orwell finished his book, his sponsors found that they were getting more than they bargained...
...Empire; it has not turned out that way. But Orwell's polemics against bearded, fruit-juice-drinking pacifists, cranks, snobs, snob-bolsheviks, cowards in the socialist movement is devastating stuff, and this lends sharp irony to the book today. With great acumen the present publishers have reprinted Victor Gollancz's original foreword, in which the socialist publisher apologizes for the heretical opinions of his socialist writer. Says Gollancz in shocked tones: "He even commits the curious indiscretion of referring to Russian commissars as 'half-gramophones, half-gangsters.' " Such indiscretions should have been more common at that...
...recent evening, Japanese at their 14-inch TV screens watched breathlessly as a topknotted samurai disarmed his opponent after some ferocious swordplay. The cowering loser awaited the death thrust; instead, the victor tossed him a bottle of tranquilizer pills, shouted the manufacturer's name and advised: "If you took these regularly, you wouldn't get into such...