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...Poet Eliot is going to settle down to a donnish little tussle with Noah Webster had better brace himself for a shock. In Notes Towards the Definition of Culture Eliot advances a view of present-day western civilization that is as pessimistic as his famed post-World War I opus, The Waste Land. What's in a Word? U.S.-born T.S. Eliot migrated to England in 1914, and quickly became what he is today, the English-speaking world's most distinguished poet and literary critic, one of England's most conservative conservatives, and its most brilliant spokesman...
Just to make sure of his point, Selznick decided to close his opus on a more tangible note than timelessness and ends with a hurricane scene that completely breaks the mood of the picture, literally winding it up on the rocks. An additional battery of loudspeakers is spotted around the theater; during the storm scene, they are filled with sounds of wind and surf. The trade calls this device Multi-Sound and it is when the wind is screaming the loudest, and everyone is wondering what has become of the fresh air, that Jenny appears for the last time...
...Wednesday's 7:30 premiere for club members and special guests will be held behind the closed doors of Lamont Library's new Forum room. Official debut for the production is sometime in May, when special music will have been dubbed in and final polish put on the Celluloid opus...
...area, is written lightly, wittily, and with essential gloom. Mr. Shelleyblake's first novel is generated by a youthful vigor and freshness ; it stands out from the tired works of his older contemporaries. The publisher is pleased, and promptly asks Mr. Shelleyblake if he is at work on Opus 2. Mr. Shelleyblake is too shy, or too ambitious, or too much in need of money to admit that having just blown his top in Opus i he hasn't got enough steam up to do it again. What's more, he has recently fallen in love...
...place in this film, music is used with great intelligence. When father Hubbard hires some musicians from Mobile to play his Opus 3, they are good but not too good at their jobs; the piano is the good but imperfect instrument you would expect to find in such a home; and Opus 3 is perfectly what might be expected of a vain, surprisingly talented but utterly derivative, provincial composer...