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...role; Miss Farrand handles the difficult role of the aerobat adequately although she seems a bit forced. Unfortunately Morgan's John is not quite natural and makes his point somewhat more difficult to comprehend. Most outstanding is Peter Temple, who as an impoverished clerk gives a great deal of blunt humor to a play which is necessarily more subtle in its important topics...
...much the defeat in the November elections (the Republicans were used to defeat) but the direful question: What was wrong with the Republican Party? Nobody knew. Pennsylvania's Republican Governor James Duff thought the party ought "to shed some of the aloofness we have." Harold Stassen was blunt. "The Republican Party is in a bad way," he said. "It is sort of like a football team sustaining a crushing defeat after having advanced the ball to the five-yard line." What Stassen thought the party needed was "a tremendous lot of rebuilding...
...Blunt Fact. The Catholics of England and Wales (2,528,200 in a population of 43,534,000) are organizing their forces to make each candidate in next spring's General Election publicly commit himself for or against their plan. Last week the Labor government made it a sharp issue: Minister of Education George Tomlinson.flatly, rejected the bishops' proposal, and issued a memorandum to Labor Party members explaining why. Questioning the accuracy of the bishops' ?60 million estimate of the Act's cost to Catholics, the memorandum asserted: "The Roman Catholic hierarchy have always aimed...
...Critic Cowley's statement that Hearn's "folk tales are the most valuable part of [his work] ... He is the writer in our language who can best be compared with Hans Christian Andersen and the brothers Grimm." Many readers will cast their votes in favor of the blunt, naturalistic American Sketches, where Author Hearn's florid prose frames some breathtaking sights in19th Century Cincinnati's Sausage Row and the New Orleans voodoo belt...
Last month the Czech Communist government brought obviously phony charges of espionage against a Czech-born U.S. citizen named Samuel Meryn, a clerk at the American embassy in Prague. In a formal note of protest the U.S. State Department vainly demanded his release. Last week blunt, able Ellis Briggs, new U.S. ambassador to Czechoslovakia, presented his credentials to Czech President Klement Gottwald. In the golden days of diplomacy, the presentation of credentials was considered an occasion unfit for the transaction of business. But Briggs, no man to be silenced by diplomatic niceties, used the formal occasion to bring up some...