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Though he often differs sharply with his colleagues, Kalem gets good notices from them. Says Clive Barnes of the New York Times: "What makes Ted one of the finest critics America has ever produced is his very emotive relationship with the theater, a relationship that far transcends mere intellectual considerations." Twice elected to be president of the New York Drama Critics Circle, Kalem nonetheless chose to abstain on two occasions from the circle's balloting for best play of the year. "Some people," he explains, "regard the theater season as a horse show, and if the closest thing they...
...Jeff Beck seems to return on Side Two, with songs like "I've Been Used," "New Ways," and "Train, Train." All of them are solid, rocking numbers, with the members of Beck's new band--Bob Tench, vocals; Cozy Powell, drums; Max Middleton, piano; and Clive Chaman, bass--in fine form...
...have Max as drama critic quoting himself on plays, players and playgoers. These comments lack the pithy bite of aphorisms, and as out-of-context fragments, they lose much of the slyly inflected wit that is one of the special pleasures of reading Beerbohm. The tone is wrong too. Clive Revill employs a voice and manner of waspish arrogance, whereas benign scorn or amused disdain would be truer...
...Maurice, the idyll is not to last. Clive suddenly has a change of heart, marries, and returns to bourgeois respectability, the lord of a country estate. He pushes the past aside and urges his former lover to do the same. But Maurice's temperament is not so supple. He is left with the fact of his homosexuality and that is the core of his existence. It seizes and infects...
...time it appears that Maurice will come down on the side of sexual conformity. He tries to yield to Clive's advice, vows to marry, and at one point visits a hypnotist for 'correction'. But at a crucial time on Clive's estate, Maurice spends the night with a young gamekeeper, Alec Scudder. There follows a period of suspicion between the two; Alec threatens blackmail, and Maurice is afraid to meet again. But a crisis between them turns into a mutual confession of love, and as the novel ends, they are planning to live together. Alec having given...