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With the completion of his naval history-a 15th volume, containing only an index and technical data, is due next year -Boston's Samuel Eliot Morison takes his place in the line of classic narrators of the American past-James F. Rhodes, John B. McMaster, George Bancroft and Edward Channing. Right after Pearl Harbor, Morison, Harvard professor of history and Pulitzer prizewinning biographer of Columbus (Admiral of the Ocean Sea), proposed to his friend Franklin Roosevelt the idea of a "full, accurate and early" history of the naval war and got the assignment himself along with a commission...
...Lillian Hellman's skillful exploration of the Sons and Lovers theme, stars Jason Robards Jr.; The Tenth Man mixes modern psychology and ancient rite in Playwright Paddy Chayefsky's tale about a Jewish girl possessed by an evil spirit; The Miracle Worker, with brilliant performances by Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke, dramatizes the brave, difficult relationship between blind and deaf-mute Helen Keller as a child and her teacher, Annie Sullivan; The Best Man, though superficial in characterization, provides a vivid theatrical look at campaigning politicians. Three musicals remain spicy and satisfying: West Side Story, Leonard Bernstein...
...character of a weak ne'er-do-well (Jason Robards Jr.): Paddy Chayefsky's The Tenth Man, set in a Mineola, I.I. synagogue, brilliantly and with high humor admixes ancient rite with modern psychology; The Miracle Worker owes its excellence to the superb performances of Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke, as they re-create the early childhood of blind deaf-mute Helen Keller; The Best Man sketches characters who are a mile wide and an inch deep, but nonetheless offers swift, glib and enjoyable theatrical journalism about campaigning politicians in action. Three musicals stand out: the good...
...maid sisters and a wife-who need him to need them; The Tenth Man, Alchemist Paddy Chayefsky's murky but potent mixture of out-of-date mysticism and up-to-date neurosis; The Miracle Worker, a tour de force of acting by Patty Duke and Anne Bancroft as the young Helen Keller and her teacher Anne Sullivan; and The Best Man, Gore Vidal's cutting caricature of coldblooded politics...
...night cream includes Toys in the Attic, Lillian Hellman's corrosive piece concerning a weakling whose old-maid sisters depend on his dependence; The Tenth Man, ancient Jewish exorcism strikingly put to work on modern neurosis; and The Miracle Worker, featuring extraordinary performances by Patty Duke and Anne Bancroft as the young Helen Keller and her teacher...