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...August, Faulkner demonstrated how the preoccupation with race can make it tragically impossible for a man to know who he really is, and dramatized the mindless virulence of white reaction to miscegenation. Joe Christmas, the book's hell-ridden hero, is a remarkably modern figure: in the psychological cant phrase of 1964, he suffers an "identity crisis" because he thinks he is part Negro successfully passing for white. Compounding his agonizing psychological fracture, Joe Christmas takes for his mistress a woman who embodies the Southerner's hated notion of the "outside agitator." Joanna Burden is a spinster...
What makes The Best Man so good is the professional tone maintained in all of the photography, direction, sets, and, especially, the acting. Margaret Leighton as Russell's wife and Shelly Berman as an old army pal of Cant-well give brilliant performances along with Lee Tracy, in his recreaton of his Broadway role of the dying, crusty ex-President whose endorsement is sought by both candidates...
MORE on the positive side is a statement that will be read to a TIME staffer this week. The Albert Lasker Medical Journalism Awards Committee is presenting one of its annual $2,500 awards to Medicine Writer Gilbert Cant for the cover story on surgery (May 3, 1963). It is the second Lasker award he has won; the other was for the virology cover story (Nov. 17, 1961). The committee cited the surgery story and the accompanying twelve pages of color pictures for "graphically portraying the skill of the modern surgical team . . . assessing and putting into perspective a range...
...Rustic, Pompous, Boom and Jazz periods, he notes it was at one time fashionable "to be dull, to be opulent, to be stuffed, to be bored." Society eventually relaxed and dinners speeded up from two hours to 55 minutes. Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish "injected candour where before she had found cant," and laughter "replaced an owlish gravity of demeanour...
...Cardinals are, in the cant of the sports world, an unknown quantity--meaning that we don't know anything about them. Nonetheless, the contest should be a tough battle--as is every game in which the varsity quintet is involved...