Word: contrasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contrast with Miss Boyko's intensity is Herb Adams' slothful behavior as young Dr. John. Although John Buchanan is a casual and lecherous character, he is not indifferent to the people around him--which makes Adams' frequent failure to react to others' lines somewhat unsatisfactory. When he does react, it is by mugging or with a boogey slouch which gives an unfortunate impression of adolescent youth. Because Adams seems unable to throw himself completely into the part, and in spite of Miss Boyko's strenuous efforts to rush through her lines in order to buoy the play, the pace lags...
...worked out a structural grill that takes its rhythm from the window spacing of surrounding Georgian structures. For his major material Saarinen chose white Portland stone, traditional both in London's official buildings and as ornament on private brick dwellings. To sharpen the black and white contrast, he used black oxidized bronze for a decorative frieze of state seals between the first and second floors and for a great seal of the U.S. above the main entrance. The final result is a U-shaped building that will house the embassy staff in the center, USIS and consular offices...
MADAM, WILL You TALK?, by Mary Stewart (250 pp.; Mill and Morrow; 3.50), a fast chase in polished prose, is an outstandingly sleek example of the femnine first-personer ("Had I but known . . ."). Colorfully painted backdrops of provincial France and the Marseille waterfront are a good contrast to the nice young English widow whose holiday is almost spoiled by an unshakable pursue.s
...determination with which Bernstein sets about explaining people--their mechanics--is more than a little nauseating, the Bridey Murphy part of the book is, by contrast, charming. But the recordings of the author's interviews with her make up less than half of the book's content. She is an ingenuous young lady who seems to have been as fond of her priest as her husband. Once in the astral world, she says she saw a lot of Father John, but Brian wasn't around much. She knows a few Irish songs, can dance an old Irish Mourning...
...contrast with this intelligent treatment of the feebleminded is Robert Fisher's stale catalogue of bullfight lore. Fisher's use of a banal subject--the discovery of dedication, and death, in a bullfight--would be bad enough if the story were well-handled. But the author seems to have almost no control. Every possible detail and almost all the conceivable eventualities of a bullfight are crammed into the story, completely obscuring the character of the novillero who achieves his consummation in death. Besides this retailing of tauromachian local-color, Fisher afflicts his readers with a stiff, unrealistic dialogue (including some...