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...your Negro population." He kept up the attack through two statewide TV debates, which, he said, also "demonstrated that while we were not necessarily Morrison's superior in intelligence and knowledge of governmental affairs, we at least approached his equal, and that we were not the uneducated buffoon that some of the papers had suggested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Elections: The Tried-&-True Technique | 1/24/1964 | See Source »

Nobody Loves an Albatross fails as a moral lesson. Preston's remains a countryish buffoon from beginning to end; his plight never forces the audience to examine the necessity for honesty. The pathos raises no ethical questions; it simply dampens the already soggy humor...

Author: By Richard Andrews, | Title: Nobody Loves an Albatross | 12/5/1963 | See Source »

Austin has also managed to make Engstrom into a real slap-stick figure who does not fit in with the play, G. Quay Quenel does not act the part badly, but the part should have been totally different. That Manders can be taken in by such a buffoon exceeds belief. Etain O'Malley is better as Engstrom's daughter, Regina, especially when she remains sprightly but mute...

Author: By Daniel J. Chasan, | Title: Ibsen | 11/23/1963 | See Source »

...inscrutable American middle class. The Radcliffe production stars Nick Littlefield as the hapless agent with a mother on his back and Ciji Ware as Rose Alverez, Littlefield's lovelorn secretary. Both leads sing pleasantly and dance with style. And Miss Ware's "Shriners" number, a torrid sequence with a buffoon male chorus, almost stops the show...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bye Bye Birdie | 11/15/1963 | See Source »

...danger of sinking into an un-Maxwellian obscurity, when the postwar wave of international prosperity brought her back with a new cast of characters. Now she was a newspaper columnist, playing for an audience of millions her roles of social arbiter, super name-dropper, gossip and buffoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Society: The Cruise Director | 11/8/1963 | See Source »

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