Word: cowardly
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...retreating South Korean cavalryman reined in his horse on a muddy road near Suwon one day last week, waved wildly at a U.S. bazooka team and shouted a warning: "Tanks, tanks!" Then he spurred his mount southward. The cavalryman was neither coward nor fool; he had already learned what many a U.S. soldier would learn in full and bitter measure before the tide of battle turned: the Communist ground forces, for the moment at least, had the better weapons...
...Noel Coward is starring in a play of his own, which attempts to portray the emotional and psychological aspects of a love triangle involving a psychiatrist, his wife, and his lover. The effort to trace the disintegration of his marriage and his personality through a long series of flashbacks produces fine acting and dialogue; it is weakened by the instruction of melodramatic necessities of the plot...
...story is too trite to be redeemed by a psychological perspective. The narration of the psychiatrist's downfall, "the final triumph of matter over mind," is generally handled with restraint and conviction by Mr. Coward, but too many people in the cast do and say the expected things at the expected time...
...dialogue is noteworthy for speeding up, rather than retarding, the pace of the picture. Mr. Coward's facility in writing and handling language makes it self-sustaining entertainment, as well as a vehicle for transmitting the thoughts and emotions of the players...
London intellectuals are carrying on a running debate as to whether they have a new Shakespeare in their midst or just a particularly brilliant writer to be rated somewhere between Noel Coward and T.S. Eliot. For his part, 42-year-old Fry is taking his success with the same equanimity he has shown through slim years as an actor and schoolteacher. With his wife and twelve-year-old son, he still lives in a 6s.-a-week cottage in a Cotswold village, 28 miles from Shakespeare's birthplace, without telephone, electricity or gas. He works through the night...