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...critics who disliked his recent London production of Hamlet with a Freudian interpretation (which he kept) and a Vandyke beard (which he shaved off after ten performances), Alec Guinness explained some of his ideas on staging in the Spectator: "The setting, a formal and rather bleak affair, I take full responsibility for. It was partly the result of reaction against permanent, semi-permanent and realistic sets in Shakespeare, and, above all, a stubborn dislike of the rostrum. Rostrums, apart from cluttering up the stage, tend to produce a one-foot-up, one-foot-down sort of acting which I find...
Humbler and more complete than the city ruins is the destruction of the grass-roofed villages. They have vanished-more than 12,000 of them-into heaps of bluish-grey ashes. Bleak stone walls still stand in front of them, and mulberry and acacia bushes, covered with heavy dust...
...coaching in 1937. Its first loss, to Cambridge on April 19, was not unexpected, as the English crew was at peak form, while Harvard had just begun its season. Last Saturday's loss to Princeton was an upset, however, and the hopes of the Bolles-coached eight look especially bleak this Saturday as Penn has been the only crew to defeat the Tigers...
Alternatives. Was that bleak and futureless policy all that U.N. troops in Korea could hope for? In the Administration's sparse pronouncements, there was only one slight indication of change. MacArthur had been told that if the Chinese should throw a large air force into battle, he was authorized to bomb their bases in Manchuria. In short, it was for the Chinese to decide whether to give MacArthur a new plan of battle. Meanwhile, behind the Yalu, the Reds concentrated troops and aircraft, held the initiative awarded to them by the statesmen...
Last week 46-year-old Alger Hiss walked through the bleak ruin of his life. His wife Priscilla was not with him. From Judge Goddard's paneled courtroom he went downstairs to the courthouse garage, handcuffed to Edward Jones, a petty mail thief. A crowd of photographers surrounded him, to catch this final incident. A deputy marshal asked him if he minded. The mail thief hid his face, but Alger Hiss said calmly: "If this is what you want, it's all right with me." Then he was loaded into a prison van with Jones and half...