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...best when she delves into the Irish temperament, with its prudery, touchiness and vulgarity, and she displays poetic gifts approaching genius when she dwells lovingly on the sights and sounds of Dublin or describes the peculiar quality of Irish rain. But as usual, she comes a cropper with her characters. They are all, it seems, sexually confused, tortured by unexplained feelings of guilt, and totally ineffectual and unbelievable as human beings. An improbable seduction scene, which is the high point of the book, has all the furtive comings and goings but none of the hilarity of a French farce...
...Please do not apply "cropper" when a poll was "proper" [Sept. 18]. After all, Opinion Research of California predicted my election, and I love that kind of accuracy...
ONCE in a while, all pollsters should take the kind of beating we took in the primaries, just to maintain equilibrium," says Don Muchmore, board chairman of Opinion Research of California, one of the many polling firms that came a cropper in one or more of this year's presidential primaries...
Questions typical of an interview are: "Imagine you are a voter registration worker. You knock on the door of a share-cropper's home and a 60-year-old Negro woman answers. You introduce yourself and she replies, 'Come in Mr. Jones, my name is Helen.' Now what would you do in this situation...
...Need for a Friend." Such impersonality was unbearable to Gropper: "I need to find the human element the way I need to find a friend." Strangely, after the long reign of the abstractionists, Cropper's work looks not like a set of period pieces but like something almost new. In him, the cartoonist, the caricaturist and the artist are jumbled up together, and sometimes the cartoonist overrides the artist...