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...spectrum of radical parties (mostly Mensheviks and Social Revolutionaries, with a few Bolsheviks) holding Socialist aims. On this Socialist family drama, Author Sukhanov lavishes the meticulous attention which an American sometimes devotes to a close pennant race. He also studs his chronicle with high-level vignettes. Among the more vivid...
...Technology, in fact, can be thought of as the primary resource; without it all other resources would be economically nonexistent . . . Technological progress during the past century, especially since 1900, appears to have been more rapid in the U.S. than anywhere else in the world." Looking ahead, Dewhurst makes a vivid prediction: in the year 2050 a worker will produce in one seven-hour day what takes today's man a 40-hour week...
Aside from its big scene, however, Inherit the Wind loses from being more documentary than creative. It is too journalistic in tone, too diffuse and shapeless in movement. Under Director Herman Shumlin's able supervision, there are plenty of vivid snapshots and plenty of lively moments, but the play provides no sustained drama. And what does seem fictional seems all too much so: a vapid love story between Scopes and a hard-shell preacher's daughter; a Mencken who talks more like a smarty-pants cribbing from the real Mencken's prose. But if Inherit the Wind...
...Picasso substituted for the low-keyed palette of his Paris paintings a whole new range of colors-pink, mauve, almond green, vivid reds and blacks. Back in Paris, Rosamond Bernier hurried round to Picasso's cluttered studio, presented him with an armful of presents sent to Uncle Pablo by Doña Lola and her children. With chuckles of delight, the 73-year-old Picasso untied an old shoe box and pulled out a bright red earthenware piggy bank, unwrapped a jar of fruit paste, an envelope of Jordan almonds from the butcher shop ("That's Spain...
...principals offset one another very well. Belafonte. singing folk songs and spirituals, is vivid and intense, with an appeal perhaps less vocal than personal, while the Champions display notable lightness and ease. If. in mass-audience terms, Belafonte is the more impressive, he is the less accomplished; and even on the score of personality. Marge Champion's delightful perkiness constitutes the evening's happiest note...