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...expected, Anil Nayar and Larry Terrell, at one and two, won easily. Nayar alternated between blistering drives and soft drop shots, winning in three straight games. Terrell overpowered Eliot Berry of Penn with crisp, hard crosscourt drives, eventually winning in four games...
THURSDAY morning was crisp and clear, so the group decided to break its pattern and take a walk. "It's nice to do things together," John had said. It was a lovely walk, single file, in total silence, along a roaring stream. The redwoods towered overhead--it was very peaceful, very calm...
FORTY CARATS is a comedy with Julie Harris as a middle-aged divorcee and Marco St. John as the young man who successfully woos her with ouzo. Directed with crisp agility by Abe Burrows, the play is never less than civilized...
...more serious air. Ben Hibbs, a former Kansas newspaperman and editor of Country Gentleman, who took over the Post in 1942, deployed a staff of crack war correspondents. He also changed the fiction-nonfiction ration from 70-30 to 30-70, shortened the articles, and struck a crisp, bright tone throughout. But when postwar American society and American journalism began changing, the Post was not so nimble as it needed...
Even Fries' humor sounds crisp, though its predictable source lies in the absurdity of the current scene and the pretentious twaddle of all establishments, whether founded upon outworn socialist unrealities or rampant democratic rhetoric. Arlecq puts in a stint as a government guide, conducting a party of Indonesian comrades from Goethe's shrine in Weimar to the Buchenwald concentration camp where, in spite of his efforts, the Indonesians beam and smile, mistaking it for a prehistory museum. He also works as an interpreter at an international conference. When the Cuban spokesman takes the floor, Arlecq switches...