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...Rattigan's theatrical flair and the lacerating honesty of John Mills's portrayal of Lawrence, the play carries one along with its promise of some ultimate disclosure of character. The central illusion holds: this could be Lawrence, this could be the Arabian desert. The high-noon blaze of Motley's desert scenes evokes a sandy inferno stretching to infinity, a landscape without perspective in which a man might take himself for a god. By contrast, the R.A.F. barracks are squatty, cramped, mind-dwarfing. But at play's end, this portrait of a hero turns...
...Bobby Morse too-when they are not working too close to him. He is more Penrod than Sammy Glick. Up and down the Rialto, he first-names doormen and kisses headwaiters in theatrical hangouts. He even kisses Producer David Merrick. He has jumped up from a restaurant table to blaze away at imaginary badmen with an imaginary six-shooter. On one memorable occasion he turned a chocolate mousse upside down on his head...
Though tanks still peered through the shrubbery in downtown Damascus, Syria was calm. After Gamal Abdel Nasser had resigned himself to Syria's breakaway from the United Arab Republic ("May Allah help beloved Syria"), the world's nations hastened to welcome the newly independent state. In a blaze of flashbulbs and official smiles, U.S. Consul General Ridgway B. Knight drove up to the rose-walled Foreign Office in Damascus last week and presented a note extending formal recognition. Three days earlier, the new regime, coolly and without publicity, accepted Soviet recognition. Said one longtime Western observer: "This...
Managed by the Lowell Institute Co-operative Broadcasting Council (associated with the University and other local institutions), WGBH lost about $1 million worth of equipment in the blaze...
...Heppenstall are an improbable two-piano team. Wilson, 30, is the lank young man who scored five years ago with a precocious, philosophicallow book of criticism called The Outsider, and has produced three non-scores since. Heppenstall, 50. is a respected British critic (The Fourfold Tradition) and novelist (The Blaze of Noon) whose writing style has a precise elegance. But in these two books they are hammering away at the same theme. The music is not much; the main difference is that Heppenstall can really play...