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...BRISKER SCRIPTURE KING JAMES JERUSALEM
Altogether brisker, and written with a far more expert journalistic surface, are the stories of Joyce Carol Oates, a 25-year-old Detroit University teacher from upstate New York. Her 14 tales belong to the old, lively tradition of American regionalism and the word-of-mouth folklore of any village. There is a good sense of place and dialect. Perhaps she lacks a touch of the Dawkins magic, but together, the well-worked art of these two women serves as a reminder that if and when the short story dies, it will be a heavy loss...
...made an expedition to the town of Shotton, where he saw his first movie. The town itself was almost as much of an astonishment as the "livin' pictiars." "Not only were the bicycles going quicker and ringing sharper bells, but the people with the preoccupied faces were walking brisker, the smoke from the strange houses blew faster, and even the town clouds, brown at the edges from smuts and sophistication, raced swifter over a man-made...
...like a tall tent will wave around us"). As might be expected of the two leading interpreters of French art songs, both readings are of first quality. Singher, at his peak, is marred only occasionally by an overexpressive wobble. Souzay's touch is lighter, his pace brisker, his tonal coloration less varied. But he somehow seems closer to the text's vernal moods...
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Rerun of one of the brisker shows of last fall. Melvyn Douglas plays a political war-horse returning from retirement to become a special assistant to the President...