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Paul Sparer's blunt and pragmatic Cassius is fine in the first half of the play, but degenerates into overwrought fustian towards the end. In his quarrel with Brutus before Philippi, his low delivery of "Brutus, bait not not me," with shaking knee, is ten times more powerful than all the torrent of screaming and bellowing he soon gives vent...
...Afraid of Virginia Woolf? may well be rewarded at the box office primarily for not having the dirty words washed out of its mouth. With a reluctant blessing from censors, all the blunt four, five-and six-letter profanities that helped make Edward Albee's Broadway play a sizzling hit have been brought to the screen intact. But nasty language can be had for free on any street corner. A moviegoer who lays out his money to see Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in a blue comedy will get a shock of another color. Virginia Woolf at its best...
...mood, which is self-critical as well as critical of the Administration, was perhaps best expressed last week by Bethlehem Steel Chairman Edmund F. Martin. "Government and business must be partners," he told the American Iron and Steel Institute. "To be blunt about it, we in business have not always been ready to accept our responsibility. This has given ambitious men in Government a readymade excuse to move into fields better dealt with by private effort. Worse still, it has reduced our influence in guiding social change...
...words were, of course, chosen by British Prime Minister Harold Wilson, and they emphasized the quiet campaign he has begun to reopen negotiations with the Six for British entry into the Common Market. Those negotiations, broken off in 1963 by De Gaulle's blunt veto, were not very popular with Labor at the time. For Harold Wilson to espouse them today is as surprising as it is important for Britain and Europe...
When the President complained about the congressional spending spree to Everett Dirksen, the Senate minority leader gave him some blunt advice: "You've lectured the business commu nity, you've lectured the grocers, and you've lectured the housewives. You've lectured everyone but the right crowd -the members of your own party...