Word: oneself
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after day! night after night, one sits-amusing oneself as best one can-at a thousand concerts. Every night one hears the same tired instruments making the same tired noises. A cry from the violin, a boom from the drum. For 150 years the only new instruments to be invented are the saxophone, the musical saw, musique concrète and electronic devices. Why? In the United States, of course, there is TV. But what do we French do with our nights...
...Health. Doctors are not sure how hypertension gets started or how it can be cured. In its early stages, it is often ignored. Said one doctor: "The kindest thing to do when one discovers a patient with hypertension but no [obvious] symptoms is to keep the information to oneself." Damage to the overworked heart and degeneration in body cells may eventually follow. Then hypertension is frequently a killer...
...half-forgotten provision in the 1951 electoral laws, banning local alliances which are not approved by a party's national leadership. And the national leadership was firm. Said Socialist Boss Guy Mollet, a mild-mannered but tough-minded ex-professor of English: "One doesn't throw oneself into the arms of those who for years have tried to strangle us and have killed our Socialist brothers in the prisons of enslaved Europe." Leaders of the Socialist unions (Force Ouvriere) backed Mollet: "For us to ally with Communists would deliver the death blow to free trade unions." The Communist...
...pushes her a little too far in the last scene, where she becomes a sort of warmed-over Ophelia. Luckily, the acting is not generally so melodramatic, and the cast as a whole is very good. Maedchen is, perhaps worth seeing, if only for the sake of proving to oneself that the acting style of twenty-five years ago is not always ludicrous...
...good place to start a twenty-month appreciation tour of Boston Jazz spots, but no place for the real fly hipster (expert) who knows that "to have a ball" means simply to enjoy oneself inordinately...