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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Administration should now define more clearly its present rules for its employees and the public, and definite penalties should be imposed for accepting gifts which are clearly more than tokens. It is unfortunate that it is so often difficult to determine innocent from improper gifts. But by prohibiting any large presents, the government would make any real corruption easier to discover and also raise public opinion about the behavior of government officials...
...Williams' dramatic reading of autobiographical selections from Dylan Thomas is chiefly remarkable as a tour de force. Mr. Williams comes upon the virtually bare stage alone and aided only by lighting and a few manuscripts as props and delivers an enthralling three hours of storytelling. It would be a difficult thing to say whether his performance is a reading or a drama--his intent is surely the latter...
...borrows from advertisements (A piece of apple pie is "nutritious, and ... delicious"), and elsewhere downright sickeningly romantic. ("Holy flowers floating in the dawn of Jazz America.") And when he tries to describe jazz, he reaches the heights of the ridiculous. ("ta-tup-EE-da-de-deraRup ...") It's difficult to see why, in the day of LP's, he thinks it necessary to compete with Charlie Parker on paper...
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...
...only be called a lack of Christian charity and humility. Her priest-confessor "has little blue eyes like an intelligent pig. " Her choir neighbor has a rasping voice that "bores like a drill." The nun's "starched headgear not only gives one a headache but-makes it difficult to hear." And fasting "makes one feel so dreadful...