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...Jeannie Berlin, May's daughter, is adept at playing the same sort of antic stupidity as May and making it not only recognizable but also winning. Eddie Albert is spectacular, a figure to strike terror into any suitor's heart; his character is a combination of George Babbitt and Eric...
...acts more like all the Seven Dwarfs-simultaneously. Instead of directing him, Dragoti indulges him. Pollard either mopes or mugs in every scene, and cruelly prolongs every line of dialogue that he cannot swallow entirely. There are some good secondary performances, though: by Charles Aidman as a sort of Babbitt aborning, Lee Purcell as a wilted prairie flower, and Dran Hamilton as Billy's mother. Both women have the same blind strength of will, the same poignant sense of the hopelessness of their characters that transcends the hand-tooled mannerisms of the movie...
...very hard to think of anyone in the history of literature whose services were more generous and perceptive than his," Harry T. Levin '33, Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature, said last night...
...since that meeting he has continued to express his love of contemporary music in the most practical way. Each year he has set aside up to $100,000 and, through his Fromm Music Foundation, parceled it out in commissions to an international Who's Who of composers: Milton Babbitt, Alberto Ginastera, Alan Hovhaness, Ernst Krenek, Roger Sessions, Stefan Wolpe -some 90 names in all. Composer Gunther Schuller describes Fromm as "the single most important benefactor in the field of contemporary music...
Moral Chill. Brown's book is considerably more than a rich thesaurus of anecdote. A sardonic muckraker, Brown demonstrates why commercial broadcasting, now a half-century old, remains "Babbitt at 50." The moral chill of the McCarthy era still afflicts the networks. Even in their journalism there is an ever-present binary fear of Government and advertisers. Thus TV-documentary writers begin a special on corruption in Saigon-only to have it scuttled. Then they are assigned a program on patent medicines-and ordered to abandon it. Then they start work on an examination of the military-industrial complex...