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...seemed in recent years as though Williams' formula was running thin; that he was serving up only faint imitations of his early plays. Don Bacon, however, has come up with Confessional, a play that Williams published last year and has never been given a professional production. Williams hasn't quite risen phoenix-like from the ashes, but he's regained enough of the old power in this short play to provide a strange and effecting evening...
...ever written. In past stories and novels such as The Assistant, A New Life, The Fixer, suffering usually stretched a character's awareness of life's tragic limitations. In The Tenant, men hack blindly at each other's flesh, and the author labors to discern some faint compassion in the violence. Like Lesser, Malamud too has had trouble finishing his book. The difficulty is underscored by an epilogue in which Levenspiel, the landlord whom circumstance has also made a victim of the combat, sets up a liturgical cry for mercy. In effect it is an unanswered...
Such raucous doings deserve something more than the limbo of faint praise. But Sillitoe is still paying the penalty for achieving his first literary triumph as part of a group that has outlived its time. His fate is a little like being known as a former member of the Andrews Sisters or the Four Horsemen of Notre Dame. Even if Sillitoe lives to be 100, his obituary will no doubt say: "Once known as one of Britain's Angry Young Men." Even at his present 43, he merits more than that...
...Resolving Power. Other astronomers have also looked for extragalactic molecules, but without any luck. Lacking sufficiently sensitive radio telescopes, they could not detect the faint "signatures" left by such molecules in the radio waves coming from distant galaxies. To overcome that obstacle, Weliachew, now a visiting astronomer at Caltech, hooked up the school's three big antennas in California's Owens Valley-two 90-ft. dishes and a 130-ft. dish -so that any two of them could be used simultaneously. That technique gave him the resolving power of a huge single antenna with a diameter equal...
...faint thing hardly felt, a kind of small nothing...