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...their taste. The cynical, lusty tale of the love life of two brothers and their single girl friend was promptly transcribed into a movie whose uninhibited fidelity to detail would have whitened a Hollywood censor's hair overnight. More books and more movies followed, each proclaiming in brutish simplicity the joys of pointless violence and casual lust. The first novel lent its name to the cult of its worshipers, and the worshipers returned the compliment by doing their best to imitate the book. Mostly the offspring of well-heeled parents, Ishihara's characters and Ishihara's fans...
Over the months the letters have brought results. A subtle technique, as different from Russia's brutish kidnapings as China is different from Russia, they can have a deep effect on the minds of the students. They stir up traditional family loyalties, create doubts about each student's place in an alien land. They offer bright promises for the future−and an end to all the frustrations and problems that beset the students...
Gerry Mulligan Quartet-Paris Concert (Pacific Jazz). One of the most original spirits of the modern school and the man whose well-formed improvisations helped launch so-called West Coast jazz (TIME, Feb. 1, 1954). Baritone Saxophonist Mulligan cajoles his brutish instrument into some sweet and swinging solos and some tenderly twined duets with Bob Brookmeyer's valve trombone. As always, Mulligan brooks no piano...
...managed to be upstage, downed her onstage liquor as if it were the real stuff, generally hammed her way through the part in a spirit of riotous deviltry. In the play's climactic scene, where the script calls for Blanche to be set up for a rape by brutish Stanley Kowalski, most viewers feared for poor Kowalski. As Streetcar's wild run began, Playwright Tennessee Williams had unwarily cozied up to Tallulah in her dressing room (see cut). After catching her first performances, he began attending a nearby bar. Groaned he into his cups...
...socially conscious '30s, when rage was all the rage, James T. Farrell's Studs Lonigan seemed the sort of protest against a poor slum kid's lot that dumb, brutish Studs himself might have written if he could write. But the U.S. stopped singing the hard-time blues, and time moved on, forgetting to leave James T. Farrell a forwarding address. French Girls Are Vicious, a book of short stories, is mainly steamed up about sex, or the lack of it, and might be subtitled "the pursuit of unhappiness...