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Burbling along in his low-decibel way, Professor Parkinson slyly camouflages the fact that there is as much truth as spoof in his pseudo-scientifically stated findings. Finally, he is as difficult to laugh off as he is easy to laugh with. Author Parkinson promises to make further researches into executive manners. One project: he would like to trace the significance of "the illegibility of signatures, the attempt being made to fix the point in a successful executive career at which the handwriting becomes meaningless even to the executive himself...
...Winchell of File, white-haired and 60, was a tame version of the once combustible keyhole crier. Gone were the high-decibel-count croak and Morse-key jangle, the creaky song-and-dance routines of last year's variety show. Now there was only the occasional clatter of the typewriter-onscreen and off-and on TV even this was restrained enough to be realistic. Though File claims to be based on his "private files," Winchell admits there are fictitious strokes "to avoid any trouble legally." Did he always beat the cops to the scene when prowling around Manhattan? "Normally...
...young column writer whose search for meaning amid his readers' hopeless letters wears his life away, Fritz Weaver cannot hope to out-decibel bellow-mumble-grunt O'Brien; and his adapted lines haven't the edge to slice through to the audience; but this may not be all O'Brien's fault, for Weaver drowns in turbulent philosophical soliloquies which West raced over...
...hear what Lucky Jim is really too gentle to tell, the reader must turn to an unlucky Jim-James Porter, irascible hero of John Osborne's play, Look Back in Anger (TIME, April 22). Look Back is a high-decibel three-act diatribe, mainly on mom, wife, God and country. Hero Jimmy has just written a poem called "The Cess Pool." His wife hovers over an ironing board-one of the endemic props of this school of social realism, together with dirty dishes and wet "nappies"' (diapers). At the slightest provocation Jimmy turns into a verbal epileptic, particularly...
...town, rented four loudspeakers and a public-address system for $15 a month. He set up the speakers in the Church of the Madonna's crumbling brick campanile and turned up the power loud enough to be heard five miles away. Then he set to work with high-decibel hymns, prayers and sermons...