Word: finalize
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...result, as usual, more than worth all the fussing and finishing. They heard a Falstaff that was robustiously humorous without being rambunctious-all of it performed with the kind of brilliance, clarity and pace that brought the studio audience bravoing to its feet with the crash of the final chord...
Rattigan's fidelity to Rattigan is also responsible for some troublesome defects. He commits the serious cinematic sin of letting his climax - the boy's final legal victory - take place offscreen, as it did offstage. In the play, the impossibly haughty barrister who wins the case was a rich treat of tasteful theatrical ham. But the grand-mannered role is so patently written to be played across footlights that, before the lifelike intimacy of the camera, even a technically flawless performance by Robert Donat fails to inspire belief. Usually an adept dramatic craftsman, Scripter Rattigan also runs...
...Horse's Mouth, by Joyce Cary. That rare thing, a first-rate comic novel; the final volume of a wise, hilarious trilogy about a modern Moll Flanders, an eccentric country gentleman and a scapegrace painter (TIME...
...courting of Germany to get them in" the Council. Adenauer, however, announced three conditions the Allies must accept before West Germany would consider entering. They were: 1) that a formal invitation to join be sent to the Bonn Parliament; 2) that the Saar issue be reviewed in the final peace treaty; 3) that West Germany have an observer on the Council's Committee of ministers as well as delegates to the Council meetings. The Allies accepted the first two points, rejecting the third...
Finley's replay asserted that Cunningham's view was purely a political comment and "lacked feeling for the final complexity of any human life." His letter continued...