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...been too large for the military's needs. Some 1,700,000 young men were classified 1-A. On the average, no more than 100,000 of them were actually drafted each year. Yet the pool, fed by new 19-year-olds in ever-increasing numbers, will brim to overflowing in the next few years as the babies of the big population years become 1-A men. Even now, the average draftee's age is a relatively elderly 23. Hundreds of thousands of young men have found themselves forced to stall off permanent career decisions, sometimes drifting aimlessly...
...prankster: mourners with black umbrellas at Ophelia's burial; a Laertes who waves a revolver in Claudius' face and a Claudius who gets the revolver and slyly pockets the cartridges, like a silent-movie badman. If Guthrie seems to scramble his props, mixing candles with flashlights, snap-brim fedoras with Kaiser Wilhelm helmets, it may be that he means to suggest the wild and whirling confusion of Hamlet's brain, the visible signs of time uncontrollably out of joint. But apparently even the most forceful director can control only the circumference of Hamlet and never its center...
Geneva is to diplomats what Niagara Falls is to honeymooners. Every meeting of every conference is filled to the brim with endless, multilingual talk. Only rarely does the Palais, one of the world's largest office buildings, come to life with such dramatic moments as Emperor Haile Selassie's moving speech against Mussolini's invasion of Ethiopia, or the sight of French Premier Pierre Mendès-France, watch in hand, signing at 4 a.m. the accord ending the Indo-China war to meet the deadline he had set himself on taking office...
...concrete steps are uncomfortable, and the acoustics are generally poor and sometimes challenged by a passing plane. It is a rare summer's night when more than 8,000 New Yorkers feel like making their way there, but for some artists, the crowds fill Lewisohn to its brim. Last week Australian Soprano Joan Sutherland made her stadium debut-and, despite the fact that the concert had to be postponed one night, she sang to the season's record house...
...Lady at My Place, done in 1961. The tiresome shibboleths of the gratuitously embattled art world vanish: the figurative and abstract paintings consort like long-time companions, and the brilliant assembly proves that no school has a monopoly on beauty. Even the most familiar artists brim with youth and vigor in this collection...