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...most of all: he clutters the stage of the Blue Angel with people, clouds, and animals. The nightclub writhes with activity. So many women are seated behind Dietrich that at first it is difficult to pick her out from her immediate surroundings. This tawdry baroque contracts heavily with the stark, antiseptic hallways at the Gymnasium. Rath has entered a new world...
...show in issue was Harvest of Shame, an hour-long study of the plight of the U.S. migratory worker presented last Nov. 25 on CBS Reports. Deliberately scheduled for the day after Thanksgiving, the documentary drew for turkey-stuffed Americans a stark picture of the field hands who rove about the country, living in makeshift squalor, and selling their labor for an average of $900 a year. Moving in shirtsleeves among the film's subjects, Narrator Murrow reached heights of personal indignation, as when he quoted one migrant-hiring Southern farmer: "We used to own our slaves...
...Polloi. After a book-length orgy of beating the breast beaters, Author Fitch's one-sentence grace note at the end sounds stark and anticlimactic, albeit traditional: "The chief end of man is to glorify God and to enjoy him forever." No Christian will quibble with that. One may, however, argue heatedly over, or reject totally, the basic assumption that the pop culture-bestsellers, TV shows, advice to the lovelorn columns, cartoons, comic strips, dialogues with taxi drivers-constitutes the best method for judging the drift and destiny of a civilization. No one judges Greece and Rome that...
Synge's work is a tragedy in undertones; and Vaughan Williams has effectively captured the stark and broken tones of the mutterings of Synge's Irish peasants. But the peasants themselves are not intrinsically interesting. Maurya, the matriarchal mother, has lost a husband and five sons to the sea before the play begins; during it she loses the sixth--he rides the family mare into the sea--and is left, stoically resigned to life, with two unmarried daughters. ("They are all gone now, and there isn't anything more the sea can do to me. We must be satisfied...
Outside grants to the University for Nieman Fellows have been made before, one of which is also for a specialist. The Louis Stark Fund has financed a one-year leave of absence for a labor reporter...