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...black and white, Demy's genre seems to produce stories with discontinuous, rather fugal, structures. Blazing with color, Umbrellas of Cherbourg has no such effect: the realism is gone, and with it the crisp texture. But the musical structure remains, ballad-like now and thoroughly impressionistic...
...Transition" by September 15. Three days later Jackson took him out to Georgetown to meet Kennedy. Kennedy, sitting in his garden, flipped through the twenty pages of the memorandum in his usual manner. He liked it at once, and it is easy to see why. The presentation was crisp and methodical with a numbered list of specific problems and actions. It began by questioning campaign talk about "another Hundred Days" -- a warning which must have inspired Kennedy, embarrassed by rhetorical excess, with confidence in the sobriety of the memorandum's author. It constantly stressed the importance of flexibility. The President...
That was the tone of the first few minutes of President Lyndon Johnson's first full-dress press conference since August. There was no question about who was in command. Crisp, clipped, perfectly assured, L.B.J. took the offensive. There might not have been a conference at all if Press Secretary Bill Moyers had not gone on television a few days before to denounce such affairs as "circuses" and "extravaganzas." They are "a poor substitute," Moyers said, for the more informal get-togethers that the President prefers. And anyway, he added, the President has no statutory obligation to hold...
...Press. As a morning paper, the Plain Dealer has a built-in advantage over the afternoon Press with its tougher distribution problems. And on top of that, the Plain Dealer has been picking up spark from Publisher Tom Vail, 39, who is running some stinging and effective exposes and crisp editorials. Vail has hired 33 new editorial staffers in the past year alone...
...they are gifted, young writers suffer the indignity of being compared to somebody else. So it was with Australian-born Shirley Hazzard when a collection of her short stories was published in 1963. As evocative as but perhaps less crisp than the young Katherine Mansfield? An ear for dialogue that matches Elizabeth Bowen's but lacks her sure sense of social structure? And somehow falls short of Rosamond Lehmann...