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...these books, Cozzens not only searched himself, but researched his subjects with immense care. For The Just and the Unjust he haunted the nearby Doylestown courthouse (it reappears in By Love Possessed), devoured legal tomes, listened to the shoptalk of the lawyers, finally became so adept that he was stumping" them on abstruse points of law. An Air Force general proofread Guard of Honor for boners, found not a single...
...said an editorial in the Times of London. "Mishandled from the start," snapped the Daily Mail. Far from being frightened off by the first sorties of fighter planes (with instructions to strafe only unoccupied forts, cars and donkey carts), the Imam's men had proved themselves much more adept at the use of automatic weapons than anyone had suspected...
...album sales. Such old grads of the whipped-cream-and-syrup school as André Kostelanetz, Paul Weston, Phil Spitalny and George Melachrino did some pioneering as early as the '40s, were later joined by a host of others. TV's Jackie Gleason became such an adept mood picker that his Music for Lovers Only sold half a million copies. For the hi-fi convert whose interest was less in music than in matching his neighbors' woofers and tweeters, the gaudily packaged mood music was ideal: it filled the yawning silence, but was so innocuous that nobody...
Alfred Drake is first-rate as the unsuccessful misogynist Benedick. He is as adept a comedian as he is an Iago. His diction and timing are exemplary, and he is a master of the nuanced inflection. Much of his Shakespearean prowess is, I think, the result of his being an excellent musician...
...propaganda agents that any foreign nation maintains in the U.S. But even if Galindez and Murphy are forgotten, the strongman's state has little chance of rivaling traditional Caribbean vacation lands. The few tourists who do visit it return to report a polite but lifeless people, depressingly adept at following the rules of appeasing egomania, but no fit company for a fling...