Word: deft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Married. Jack Lemmon, 37, deft, Oscar-winning (Mister Roberts) film comedian; and Felicia Dines Farr, 29, trim, brown-eyed television actress; both for the second time; in Paris...
...gone very far without Joseph Everingham's briskly professional direction. The pacing is perfect, as it must be -- most of the lines haven't a glimmer of a chance unless they're ripped off as fast as humanly possible. At the same time, the staging is relaxed, assured, and deft: there is no stumbling, and little awkwardness...
...Holland and Germany. He came out of the war a lieutenant colonel-and a bit of a drifter. He moved from a desk job at the Ministry of Aviation ("not much fun") to the post of news editor of the Anglican Church Times (where he is remembered as a deft headline writer) to trainee executive in a private merchant banking firm...
...story winds through the wanderings of Hercules, his destruction of the three-headed monster Geryones, and finally ends with the vision of Columbus-with alleluias of thanksgiving for the land he will soon discover. Completely tonal, full of color and exciting contrasts, the heroic score was never overwhelming, always deft in its handling of a myriad of descriptive effects. And the weightiness of the theme was relieved by occasional touches of humor, most strikingly with the singing of the three-headed Geryones (Tenors Pier Francesco Poli, Pieo de Palma, Sergio Pezzetti), which sounded a little like Tnrandot's Ping...
Manipulating masterfully, Miss Murdoch turns out a deft three-in-one book: a sort of combined superior soap opera, teddibly British novel of sensibility, and philosophical inquiry into reality...