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...acts are vaudeville, but the subtleties of Yiddish vaudeville are as good as anything the Palace ever had. And there are enough English jokes to keep those who cannot understand Yiddish from becoming completely frustrated. Once in a while a moldy yuk shoves its way in among the crisp ones, but never enough to be annoying...
...Tall Men is full of fighting men and soft, shapely women. It's also got some crisp dialogue, and it was filmed in Technicolor. It is no secret why some of us like this type of picture. Ten Tall Men is merely an excellent example of good, colorful escapism with very little reality or plot to confuse the moviegoer...
Last week Boston honored Gropius with a big retrospective show of his architecture. Included were models of his glass-walled Bauhaus (done in 1926) and Harvard's new graduate center (designed by Gropius and several collaborators). The crisp, cold, unornamental lines of his buildings, their rectilinear counterpointing of wide-eyed windows and bare, blind walls, shocked nobody. Gropius has disseminated his philosophy of design so well that now it is almost taken for granted...
...William and Jean Eckart is conventional, but it effectively catches the spirit of the rambling English country manor; Herman Shumlin's direction is perceptive and crisp, but there are a couple of wordy spots in the first act where the action drags...
...years one of the main battles of U.S. educators has been waged by the followers of John Dewey ("Learning by Doing") on one side, and the followers of Robert Hutchins ("The Great Books") on the other. Last week, in a crisp editorial, the editors of the Freeman sensibly suggested that it was about time for the two factions to get together...