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...good as any the world has known. And he wishes U.S. artists would discard their inferiority complexes. "If an artist is from Europe." he says, "we in America immediately think he is superior. I have visited Rome, Brussels and Paris, and I think our American modern art has more vigor and fire and life to it." How would he go about helping U.S. painters and sculptors? "Ah,." says Father Lauck, with a missionary gleam, "It's a pity not more American artists are doing religious subjects. The sponsor of so much great art in past centuries has been...
...generalities in State of the Union speeches to get to their specific proposals. President Eisenhower's is no exception. Phrases like "encourage foreign trade while preserving legitimate domestic industries" or pleas to shore-up farm prices while recognizing the plight of housewives, show that the President, for all his vigor, maintains in January his fence-sitting habits of last fall. But enough of the specifics gleaned from his speech, plus the republican election platform, show what will be the Administration's domestic policy for the next four years...
...play at its best is hard-hitting sociological melodrama, though even here it would gain from fewer and more sharply aimed blows. And helped by performances from Arthur Kennedy, Walter Hampden, Beatrice Straight, E. G. Marshall and others, Jed Harris has staged the play with consistent though conventional vigor...
With the same vigor and originality which marked Bernstein's score for On the Town, his music is a pleasant change from the trite insipidity of current show tunes. "Wrong Note Rag" piques the ear with delightful dissonance, and in "Pass That Football," a tribute to the well-paid college athlete, the eloquent stupidity of Bernstein's lumbering rhythm is as comic as the lyrics by Betty Comden and Adolph Green. While the intricacy of some of his music challenges both the lyricist and the singer's enunciation, Bernstein can write simple and memorable melodies. Wonderful Town has at least...
...Europe, we ask that enlightened and inspired leaders of the Western nations strive with renewed vigor to make the unity of their peoples a reality...