Word: burtons
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Congratulations on John McPhee's cover story [April 26] on Richard Burton. I read it with mounting excitement-would he fall off the tightrope stretched between ruthless factual reporting and sensitive (and sophisticated) interpretation? He didn't; the subject was rendered in the round; and the subordination of the Elizabeth Taylor episode at the end was exactly right. Without either apologizing or moralizing, Mr. McPhee conveyed the pathos (tragedy would be too big a word) and the self-destructiveness (selling-out would be too small a word) of Richard Burton's career...
...wonderful article on Mr. Burton. Whenever was such a birthright sold for such a mess of pottage...
...more picture of Richard Burton or Elizabeth Taylor or Joseph Mankiewicz on the cover of a national magazine, I'll scream...
...especially pleased with the way in which you presented the choices open to Mr. Burton and with the decisive way in which you said what many of us feel had to be said about the Taylor-Burton affair...
Move over, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Shakespeare, and make room for John McPhee. He well deserves a place among you, for in his penetrating study of Richard Burton, he has created a character in the heroic, tragic tradition of Prometheus, Oedipus, Orestes, and Hamlet...