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...Fancy Meeting You Again" is a very funny play, undoubtedly the funniest to come to Boston so far this season. It is the work of a master craftsman, George S. Kaufman (and his wife, Leueen MacGrath), and throughout the three acts the deft touches of a successful playwright are evident...
...those acquainted with Spanish ballet, Jose Greco and his troupe will provide an evening of exciting, colorful entertainment. For Greco is a precision craftsman and an agile, graceful dancer as well. And his company is one of the best of the few performing Spanish dances in this country today...
...stodgy. Their adventures of the mind are apt to be mild and safe, and their literature too often runs to querulous and self-protective introspection, or voices a pale, orthodox liberalism that seems more second-hand than second nature. On the whole, the young writer today is a better craftsman than the beginner of the '205. Novelists like Truman Capote, William Styron and Frederick Buechner are precocious technicians, but their books have the air of suspecting that life is long on treachery, short on rewards. What some critics took for healthy revolt in James Jones's From Here...
...Greene? Will it rate him as high as Hemingway or Faulkner? Will he outlast Evelyn Waugh? Will he be mentioned in the same breath as Dostoevsky? Only posterity can answer. But with these three contemporaries, at any rate, Greene can hold up his head. He is as accomplished a craftsman as they, and without the mannerisms with which the two Americans have begun to burlesque their own styles. He has neither the snigger nor the snobbery that are Waugh's trademarks. But when Greene is compared with Dostoevsky, the great shocker of the 19th Century, all his books together...
Actually, there were two Ensors-the young man who painted some mild early pieces of impressionism, and the mature craftsman of disagreeableness. The Museum of Modern Art arranged its exhibit so that visitors would see the mild stuff first. But the early Ensors, e.g., pleasant home-town scenes such as Ostend Rooftops and Afternoon at Ostend, quickly gave place to the later ones: the swirling Tribulations of St. Anthony, a skeleton-haunted Banquet of the Starved, a macabre dumb-show entitled Masks Confronting Death. His most famous picture, Entry of Christ into Brussels in 1889 (TIME...