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...magazine Jet Propulsion, Major David G. Simons, chief of the Air Force Medical Corps Space Biology Branch, gives the most authoritative estimate to date. His conclusion: G-free man will doubtless experience a nerve-racking dis location that results in space-sickness, but can probably learn to cope with...
...receive one of the highest honors possible to U.S. artists: the Gold Medal for Painting presented by the National Institute of Arts and Letters.* Edward Hopper, 72, has been informed, to his great relief, that all he has to say on that great occasion is one word: "Thanks." That, doubtless, is just what he will say. But "You're welcome" would be more appropriate, for the award itself is a kind of thanks for something that could never be paid for in coin of the realm: a 24-carat contribution to American art. In an age when the younger...
Conductor Robert Beckwith correctly limited his chorus to less than a dozen singers, thereby making possible a precision and a clarity that a large group could not achieve. The first half of the opening Taverner piece suffered from a breathy tone and general insecurity, which could doubtless have been avoided through an adequate warm-up before the concert. From then on, the chorus sang well in response to Beckwith's supple yet restrained and unostentatious conducting, done wholly from memory...
...there never been a philosophy of kismet, doubtless the theater would have invented one. For whatever its status as metaphysics, it makes a useful handmaiden for melodrama. And exploited, as in Tonight in Samarkand, with all the blare of circus music and color of circus life, it achieves for two acts a certain quality of nice old-fashioned excitement. The play goes in for few philosophic frills, merely uses fate as a plot gimmick. A blonde girl symbolizes death, but no more abstrusely than a headwaiter symbolizes dinner...
These two drunk scenes are one reason-June Lockhart is another-why The Grand Prize ranks among the season's pleasanter also-rans. Playwright Alexander has a real gift for a funny line, though no gift whatever for hewing to it. Writing amiable nonsense, he can doubtless be pardoned for never sufficiently thickening his plot; his sin is how sadly he waters his prattle. He permits far too much second-rate-and secondhand-jesting; he should trade in his rubber stamp for a pruning knife. But The Grand Prize merits the classic praise the curate gave his egg: parts...