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Phillip Barry's play was mostly Hepburn. Its plot was flimsy; it was, after all, just a simple courtship within an artificial framework, something that oriental and royal couples go through all the time. Stewart's added persiflage is amusing and unassuming. What makes "Without Love" thoroughly refreshing is the superior acting of la Hepburn, buoyant, mature, clever, with more than peaches-and-cream, and with as much sex as she can muster...
Last week she found herself virtually a popular success. She brought to Manhattan her Appalachian Spring, a pleasant, good-humored ballet with no hidden meaning at all. It was danced on a stark black-draped stage relieved only by the skeletal framework of a house. What was happening in this newest Graham dance-drama (to Aaron Copland's alternately gay and poignant Pulitzer prize score) was comprehensible even to the bored businessman: a bride (Graham) and her groom (Erick Hawkins) built their house in the clearing of a Pennsylvania forest; they had a baby; they entertained a band...
...unanimous -all in praise of the Graham skill. But the quixotic Graham, explaining things to the press, could not resist fuzzing up her new ballet's simplicity with a few of the old nuances: "I used my grandmother's stories of the pioneer days ... to build the framework of a nation. Spring is purely symbolic of the springtime of the nation. That is why the set is so simple with no green leaves...
These men, headed by Berlin Communist Walter Bartel, had drafted a blueprint for Germany. They wanted: 1) a popular front of anti-fascist committees to provide the framework of an interim government; 2) re-establishment of a modified form of the Weimar Republic; 3) federalization of the new Reich to prevent domination by Prussia; 4) confiscation of all Nazi property; 5) close economic relations with Russia; 6) educational reform...
Russian commentators hastened to say that the new government was formed within the framework of the Big Three's 1943 Declaration on Austria. U.S., British and Russian Foreign Ministers had agreed that Austria "shall be liberated from German domination" and made "free and independent" again. But Soviet spokesmen said nothing of a Big Three understanding that Austria would be administered by a U.S.British-Russian Commission until her future was determined...