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...retort, Reischauer said that "the balloon which we would deflate in our allies' minds is one that we have blown up with our own hot air." Claiming that our policy with regard to China is "arrant nonsense and complete unrealism," he suggested that a slow change in American policy would give our allies time to adjust...
...Whirlybirds' Ken Toby and Craig Hill soar through the sky in a helicopter, Actor Dane Clark as Shannon plows through the waves in a 62-ft. sloop. Dockside waits his nubile ward, played by Joan Marshall, whom Writer David Friedkin describes as a "lovely, whimsical, gay, arrant broad in love with a virile guy-only he doesn't want to get married...
Dissentient, arrant they come. Such paucity transcends...
...meaning and the ideas offered in MacLeish's play. I shall only say that I left my front-row seat three or so weeks ago with the feeling that the entire history of the theatre had existed solely to make possible this production of this play. Which is arrant nonsense, of course. Yet the statement is true at least to the extent that MacLeish has here adapted many diverse literary traditions covering a span of close to 2,500 years...
Barring a certain garrulity, Playwright Rattigan has done his full share-in characterization and atmosphere, in sharp touches and emotional scenes-to make such stunt-writing prosper. Indeed, his vivid theater sense is a little disastrously triumphant. There are times when the first drama seems more than arrant make-believe, seems concerned with truth. Unfortunately, Playwright Rattigan has never had the courage of his conceptions, and here-as in The Deep Blue Sea-he wobbles into a miserable happy ending. And in the second play, where he might seem to be protesting against much that is amiss in English life...