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...desk when he applied for a job that afternoon. Now that same night, in whose fancy home had Benny's wife just gone to work as a maid? Small world. New York, just full of coincidence. Small book, this lurid first novel, which overworks coincidence, seduction and dialect ("What-chou all want?") to prove that sex is the squeegee of tension, "the instrument that wipes the wet dirt from the window." Asks a middle-aged woman in a symbolic parlor scene, "Don't we all get just a little squeegeed?" Anyone who pays $4.95 for this book...
...reputation as a novelist, never having written a novel before. Connelly is the man who wrote The Green Pastures, an unforgettable delight that opened on Broadway 35 years ago, ran for 640 performances there and 1,002 more on the road. Its Negro cast spoke in outrageous dialect: "Gangway for de Lawd!" Black angels held fish fries in Heaven and dispensed 10? seegars to newcomers. It might jar contemporary liberals, but Pastures in its day had all the impact of a Negro spiritual; it won the 1930 Pulitzer Prize for drama...
...interview concerning his work at the Center, Scott said, "I am not being used as well as I was used in the commercial theater. I have invested an enormous amount of time, money and energy to become a versatile actor. I can speak the king's English or any dialect. I can sing and dance and move the way an actor ought to move on stage. So why should I play just special types...
...intrigues me is by a Wellesley sophomore, Carol Bosworth. What to call the article is the problem. She terms it "didactic effusions," which would put anybody off. It is really an extended reminiscence, punctuated with a sometimes, bitter, sometimes wise, philosophical narrative. With a good ear for dialogue--and dialect--and a sharp eye for detail, Miss Bosworth successfully evokes her childhood and early religious training. The interwoven commentary is equally precise, chopping up the "effusions" with such pungencies as "Jews are made and not born...
...American major." Carlson, member of the Evangelical Covenant Church of America, had seen military service only as a seaman, for 22 months in the 1940s. He voluntarily stayed behind rebel lines to minister to their wounded, living in a village of 50 inhabitants called, in the native dialect, "The End of the World." But Gbenye announced that Carlson had been "tried" as a spy and sentenced to death. The missionary and the rebels' other white prisoners-60 Americans and 800 Belgians-would be released only after the U.S. and Belgium withdrew all aid to Tshombe's army. Last...