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...merits or demerits as a thinker, he had the greatest technical command of English of any modern writer except Joyce. He performed a major operation on the English sentence. He cut out the adjectives and prompting words that tell a reader how to feel and replaced them with spare, brisk monosyllables that he called the "ugly short infantry of the mind." Hemingway spliced his images together like a film editor, so that the action was always advancing on the reader rather than the reader following the action...
There is, in short, absolutely nothing in the play that any director could possibly fear. With the proper number of scripts and an equal set of actors--who need do little more than articulate distinctly--good sets and a brisk pace, his succeeds is assured. With these minimum requirements, the comedy must prove almost irresistible; no Shakespeare play could be less dispiriting...
...when brisk, jet-borne academic types whisk in and out of Washington, the legendary absent-minded professor is an anachronism. But New York University Philosopher Sidney Hook still conforms to that older, homelier image; he has been known to enter the shower wearing pajamas, and he once absently rejected the Oedipus Complex as a tool of philosophy by exclaiming: "I learned that stuff at my mother's knee...
...pottery, and some toy turtles-he contemplates for about an hour. "By this time," says he, "I am filled with fury for my work, and I am ready to jump off the balcony." Instead, he paints through the morning. After lunch and a rest, he sets off at a brisk pace for a solitary walk on the steep roads near his house, stopping to examine a leaf, a butterfly, a chip in a wall. During the day he smokes just three cigarettes. He works until exactly 9:30 at night...
...Ohio astronomy professor (George Voskovec), now the greatest of Soviet scientists. What begins as a mere reunion turns, at the behest of the U.S. embassy, into an appeal to Scientist Kuprin to escape to America. What begins as an appeal turns, through the vigilance of the U.S.S.R., into some brisk spy-and-counterspy hanky-panky. At the end Kuprin, caught out, swears to stay permanently in the U.S.S.R. in exchange for letting the American and his new Soviet sweetheart-who is Kuprin's cousin-get away...