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...giant liner foundering in mid-Atlantic, to give the feeling of the surging thousands with scarcely a hundred actors. To do this, he used 40 sets jammed into NBC's Brooklyn studio, making masterful use of his six cameras to combine action and symbolism; e.g., a rope spinning over a bitt was enough to suggest the lowering of a lifeboat. Seven sets-decks, staterooms, etc.-were built in duplicate, one set being shown "dry" for early scenes, the second set built to hold three feet of water for the sinking scenes...
...however suddenly it may swerve, wriggle or tie itself into knots. Last week, in the aftermath of Joseph Stalin's tumble from grace (TIME, March 26), the Worker gave the weird impression of having come to the end of the line-or at least the end of its rope...
...some junctures Olivier's inspirations cannot be explained at any point short of genius. His transition from the Hitleresque vaudevillain stuff in the mob scene is an act of high poetic terror: he leaps, epileptic with triumph, from his balcony to the bell rope that is tolling in his reign, and down it he goes, twirling like a mad chimpanzee in his surely insane lust to see the first man bend the knee...
...Prime Minister Sir Anthony Eden's trip to Washington-for a deal between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., a nightmare prospect for the U.S.'s allies in both Europe and Asia. (In 1954 Russia proposed an all-European accord that would have excluded the U.S. from Eu rope.) Bulganin doubtless hoped it would reinstate him in his favorite propaganda role of peacemaker. Eisenhower's skillful, moderate reply not only exposed the hollowness of the Russian plea but clearly implied that the real hope of settling the cold war lay in the continued solidarity of the anti-Communist...
Engel, new to the University this year from Princeton, has written essays, stories, and the novel A Length of Rope...