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...more cynical American admirers, "it's Tynan two to one." He has an unerring eye for the sorest point, whether it be an actress' weight or her unpleasing hands. After seeing Britain's venerated Dame Edith Evans play Shakespeare's Cleopatra, he wrote: "Bereft of fan, lace and sedan chair, Dame Edith is nakedly middle-aged and plain...
...Moving into his apartment, Lana falls in love, instead, with his roommate. Singer Carlos Thompson, who looks remarkably like TV's Ventriloquist Paul Winchell and acts with all the intensity of one of Winchell's puppets. Pier Angeli. Thompson's fiancee, is on hand to look bereft and beautiful, while such outlanders as Charles Goldner, Peter Illing and Eric Pohlman do their best to behave like Neapolitans...
...campaign are one Republican and two types of Democrat. The Republican, Harold Reigelman, has a long record of service in financial matters. He would make a fine Comptroller. But to the mayorship of a city crying for social welfare legislation he brings a record bereft of achievement in this field. And around his neck is the albatross of a party which in New York City has been historically indifferent toward these matters...
...Corsica, meanwhile, Ben Youssef had to move out of the house of the frantic governor and install himself in a hotel before moving on, probably to a resort in the French Pyrenees. There, the broad-minded French indicated, the 26 remaining concubines will be allowed to rejoin the bereft ex-Sultan. "We are adhering to our principles," explained a Quai d'Orsay spokesman. "He is in exile with all the honors due his rank...
...reactions [March 30] to your article substantiate your point that the world today is truly bereft of any possible common ground on which to arbitrate the present confusion which has enveloped its inhabitants . . . This common ground is based upon a unity in the fundamental concepts: moral principles and standards, and a framework of philosophy about man, the world, and truth in general. It is evident that those who replied to your article in a derisory manner . . . are oblivious of the fact that all laws are based upon man's basic nature. The nature each one of us possesses today...