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Johnny confidently plans to be "a rich man in three years," and the best way to make it, he figures, is to become "a singing actor" like Sinatra. That way, he says, staring with wide, artless eyes across the table and shooting out his moonstone cuff links, "I could make one film and Vegas and have...
...insists that hers is no Cinderella story; she and her editorial assistants have dusted off an impressive number of highborn Maryland and Virginia kin-Montagues and Warfields so snootily Southern that they called the Union Army "Mr. Lincoln's men." This family tree spreads its shadow over the artless stories told by Bessiewallis* about grandmother's "victoria," her first sausage curls, her posh uncles like S. Davies Warfield, who grandly inserted a notice in the newspapers that because of "the appalling catastrophe now devastating Europe" (it was 1915), he would "forgo the ball that he might otherwise...
...thanks to crack translators. Most of its memorable faux pas have been perpetrated by foreign-born journalists who know little of Japanese customs. Readers still chuckle over a story written for the Times by an American woman who dined unwittingly at Tokyo's most notorious whorehouse, burbled at artless length in the paper about the "attractive girls...
Some people have a knack for blurting out the wrong words at the wrong time. Will Stockdale, the hero of No Time for Sergeants, is a genius at this artless art. His naive, well-meant blunders form the best argument yet discovered against continuing the draft, or at least the best remedy for accepting it. The resulting comedy, which Ira Levin adapted from Mac Hyman's best-selling novel, shows how a Georgia farm boy can send the U.S. Air Force into a tailspin. Maurice Evans has produced this new play almost as a sequel to the Teahouse...
...From Babbitt, to The Grapes of Wrath, to The Naked and the Dead, a generation of talented but angry men has been bending the ear of U.S. readers, almost suggesting that thinking men should secede from the U.S. Wouk is not an angry man. But there is more than artless optimism or patriotism beneath the surface of his stories. Wouk denies taking stands for or against anything, but the evidence of the books contradicts him. There is an indictment in The Caine Mutiny-not, ultimately, of Queeg, the maniacal martinet, but of Keefer, the phony intellectual. There is an indictment...