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HOTELS Connie's Baby All week long the immense, Y-shaped hotel building in Los Angeles rattled and rang while an army of workmen struggled with crisis piled upon crisis. The air conditioning refused to work; the special refrigerators in each room went on the blink; the rooftop water tank overflowed into the handsomely decorated L'Escoffier restaurant, soaking the deep-pile carpets. Rats invaded the basement and chewed on the beautiful hand-woven furniture designed for the presidential suite; one woman employee caught a toe in a mouse trap. But this week, finally, Conrad Hilton, the world...
...Great Adventure (Sucksdorff; Louis de Rochemont Associates). A pool in the forest waits in stillness at first light. The mists are bodied silences. Suddenly, a bird sings, clears his morning throat and tries again. A dewdrop tumbles from its cobweb couch. Fox cubs yawn and blink in their cozy ground, while overhead the lilies languidly unclench. On the nearest farm the cock insults creation, which unexpectedly replies. A vixen darts among the spluttering hens and carries off her breakfast...
Despite wrenching translations and ironfisted Spanish censorship, the show retained a surprising amount of its pace and charm. Spain's top scenic designer, Sigfredo Burman, speckled the mythical isle of Bali Ha'i with miniature lights that blink by night, put ripples in the sea, installed clouds that moved swimmingly across pink-and-azure sky. and devised ocean waters to lap seductively at the sandy shores...
After DeSapio took his seat, Javits very dramatically rose, and said, "I come from New York too, but I had to blink my eyes after hearing Mr. DeSapio's talk, and see if I was really from Manhattan...
...more incongruous for it. For Lent looks to the real Easter; and to lift high that great light in man's darkness is the holy challenge of the churches. How are the churches of America meeting the challenge? The change - in a generation - is enough to make wiseacres blink. Twenty-five years ago, traditional Christianity seemed to many an American intellectual to be rolling up the scroll. The Good Life was a matter of well-planned getting and spending, and all the answers were to be found written down, from Hegel to Freud to Keynes. Professor John Dewey...