Word: starkness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Conceived in Sin." The result was an impressive argument for live TV drama. Seldom has so much TV wallop been packed into an hour as in Director Lumet's handling of the fall of Governor Willie Stark, ruggedly played by granite-faced, gravel-voiced Neville Brand, 37, a relative unknown until his Part 1 performance a fortnight ago. Though the limitation of time forced the play to move so swiftly that complexities of Willie's evil drive for self-esteem were lost, it surged with the brutal power of Willie's premise: "Man is conceived...
Sadhu is the Sanskrit word for "straight," and the straight-living, ascetic sadhus of India were once the bearers of Hindu holiness. Robed in saffron or stark naked, smeared with ashes or painted vermilion, shaven bald or mat-haired, they wandered through the world with their begging bowls, dispensing sacred teaching, sage advice and examples of the unworldly life. Inevitably another breed of sadhu arose that was anything but straight. Trading on the enormous prestige of the holy men, these daubed wanderers move from village to village dispensing magic charms and quack cure-alls and mulcting the credulous peasants. Today...
...University, made a strong argument for a world rule of law. "War with Russia," said the A.B.A.'s Rhyne (TIME, May 5), "is as certain as tomorrow's sunrise unless a formula or mechanism can be developed to maintain peace other than through arms." That being the stark fact, Rhyne suggested that it was high time for the U.S. State Department under International Lawyer John Foster Dulles to set up a new section staffed with experts to concentrate on law as a positive weapon in achieving and maintaining peace...
...northern polling station of Koumea last week, the first voter of the day strode in stark naked except for a straw hat. In the south, nationalists regaled reporters with accusations of repeat voting by government supporters: the ink stamped on each voter's hand to prevent his voting twice apparently washed off easily. But when day was done, the unexpected news began to spread: Olympio's party had won 60% of the votes, and 31 out of 46 Assembly seats...
...director William Kelley has decked out his production with all sorts of bizarrerie, most notably makeup in vivid shades of red, blue, white, and green. Set designer Roberta Weiner has provided black walls for her hotel room, and it is lit (by John Herzog and Charles Kennel) mostly with stark white shafts. It's odd, very odd, but it comes...