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...Lane was appointed Executive Director and General Counsel to the N.Y. Waterfront Commission. At present, he is a partner in the New York firm of Casey, Lane, and Mittendorf...
Generation of Ciphers. Roaming with Skeffington from waterfront to wake ("Never neglect the relatives, friends or enemies of the deceased"), Adam sees the old campaigner turn on the charm and put on the pressure. Disloyal allies are axed, appointees are squeezed for campaign contributions, the opposition newspaper is promised "a little trouble with the building inspectors shortly...
...element Morris has learned from nature is the importance of space. Says he: "In the Northwest, you see either close up or far away." In From the Waterfront (see cut), done in soft shades of grey with only small punctuations of color, the painting close up has the tactile sense of smoothed concrete; seen from a distance, it becomes a moody study in perspective...
...evening's end, it was plain that Porgy was effectively spreading good will for the U.S. Thirteen times during the opera about life on the waterfront in Charleston, S.C., the Russian audience burst into frenzied applause. As the lights went up, many in the audience had tear-stained faces. Shouting and stamping their feet, the crowd gave the cast an 8½-minute ovation. The second night the nation's top leaders-Khrushchev, Molotov, Malenkov, Kaganovich, Mikoyan-were on hand, staying through a couple of curtain calls and applauding vigorously. Gasped the artistic director of Moscow...
Porgy shocked the Russians with its portrayal of life in the raw and sex in the open along Catfish Row on the Charleston, S.C. waterfront. The audience reacted with gasps. But at the final curtain they rushed the stage and gave the cast a ten-minute ovation. Radio Moscow called it "a great success...