Word: bordering
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...discussing only a few of them. Margery Ziskind, as Grusha, gives one of the most touching performances I've seen on any Harvard stage. Grusha's simple faith and love, her fury at injustice, and her durability are portrayed with a passion so full that they always almost border on the stupid. Miss Ziskind miraculously keeps them on the right side of the line. A good performance would not have been good enough; Miss Ziskind's is magnificent...
...East-West border dispute, of course, is what rips apart the lives of the several characters who would otherwise be a happy family. Anna (Eva Kotthaus) an earthy heroine who wears her soul in her face, works in a Communist factory and looks after her war-ravaged grandparents. She has an illegitimate son by a dead war hero. Her son lives with his prosperous grandparents in the Western zone. Anna kidnaps the little boy from his grandparents, but she loses him in transport; when a Western policeman (Eric Schuman) risks his job to return the child, the two fall hopelessly...
Something about the exhausted faces and the poverty and the ugliness may send most viewers home to stare at their walls for an hour or two. "I feel empty and cold," Anna says after she has made love in an abandoned railroad station. "So long as the border continues there is no hope...
...would think of scheduling a game for the time that Vaught's team is playing; anyone who cannot get over to Oxford for the Ole Miss game listens to it over his radio. But every Friday night the state is set aglow from the Gulf to the Tennessee border by the lights of high school games. Towns too poor to have a Confederate memorial are too proud not to have a football field. Says Ole Miss Line Coach Frank ("Bruiser") Kinard: "Most every place manages to throw up a stick and put a light...
...must" tour is the 20-mile drive from Kowloon through the New Territories to the border with Red China, marked by a barbed-wire fence and a few Communist soldiers in mustard-colored uniforms at the frontier station on the Kowloon-Canton railway. Looking across the border at the blue hills and rounded mountains of China, the tourist feels the mystery of the unknown and unknowable, the amorphous weight of 670 million humans whose purposes and aims remain hidden. His mood is very like that of the 16th century Europeans who first set foot in China and stared with wild...