Word: spectacularly
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Scipio Africanus (Italian) is as magnificent a bit of Fascismo as has come out of Italy since Marcus Cato rose to tell the Roman Senate: "Delenda est Carthago" (Carthage must be liquidated). It is also as spectacular a show as the movies have seen since the Italian Quo Vadis? first made the U. S. spectacle-conscious...
Improved passing, spectacular success in their combination plays, and a general tightening up of weakness all along the line accounted for the Crimson's win, the third in which the Seniors and the present team have participated...
This time the problem is different. And the difference is the fault of an ambitious little country where life is not abundant, Japan. Last week a European squeeze was on The Netherlands, and Japan was on the alert. At the most opportune and opportunistic moment, out came a spectacular jingoistic blast: Japan would like some of that Dutch abundance, and would brook no interference to her ambition to dominate the South Seas...
Marcel Tabuteau did not so much mind the gout itself as the fact that it keeps him from his favorite occupation: eating. For Marcel Tabuteau is not only Philadelphia's first oboe player, he is also Philadelphia's most spectacular gourmand. "For two weeks I am on a milk diet!" he exploded. "Do you know what that is like? The hunger, it does not leave me. Whatever I do, wherever I go, it is like something I cannot take off. To me the cooking and eating are arts as great as music-maybe greater. One more week...
This week, while celebrating his 50th birthday, the greatest collaborator of his time can look back on a career in the theatre that would be spectacular in a man of 100. Kaufman's current collaboration with Moss Hart, The Man Who Came to Dinner (TIME, Oct. 30), is one of the biggest smash hits of the last ten years. Kaufman's unequaled record: at least one show on Broadway every year since 1921. Fifteen of those shows Burns Mantle has included in various annual volumes of the Best Plays. One of them (You Can't Take...