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...iconoclast, wealthy socialist John Tanner, is a modern counterpart of his ancestor, Don Juan. Tanner violates conventions, rather than damsels. Cunningham plays Tanner well, albeit very seriously. His performance falters only at the end, when he tells the predatory Ann in an intentionally farcical manner that he lover her. Earlier in the act, the confrontation between an American billionaire, Hector Malone, and his rebellious son is also performed with broad, almost burlesque humor. But the Malones' argument forms a self-contained episode and does not jar the audience...
...Quai d'Orsay are crowded into tiny offices in a large L-shaped building adjoining the Foreign Ministry. The service is competitive, as in the U.S., and most of its members are career men. A French diplomat is far less submerged in paper work than his U.S. counterpart. He is constantly urged to keep his cables brief and infrequent so that the total handle of cables at the Quai runs about 1,000 daily, less than half that of the U.S. State Department. The Quai's files are singularly bare of statistics. There are not even any biographical...
Sidney Goldfarb offers a non-fiction counterpart to this literary gingerbread in his essay on Mexican braceros, an exploited captive labor force in southern California. We are glad to see this Mother Advocate innovation, and had Goldfarb presented his convincing facts more starkly, his plea would have had more impact. As it stands, he crusades with the polemical assertiveness of a National Guardian editorial, relating "his single moment of perception, a moment so horrifying that all the backwash of cynicism one necessarily collects after twenty years awake in America flushed to my eyes and forehead, shattering all sense...
...William Pearson, a Denver lawyer turned novelist, has undertaken to write another insider's story of a great U.S. corporation-in this case, the Consolidated Bell Company in the fictional town of Rowton (pop. 1,000,000). Pearson never actually worked for such a company but observed a counterpart at close quarters when his Denver law firm had dealings from time to time with the local telephone company...
...Army major with 15 years experience who oversees a research laboratory receives about the same pay as a fresh out of grad school research scientist employed by private industry. An Air Force jet engine mechanic with four years' service earns three hundreds dollars a month; his counterpart an American Airlines makes twice the amount...