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...historical drama to television. Lee at Gettysburg, a 78-minute play written in lucid, often eloquent blank verse by young (35) TV Dramatist Alvin Sapinsley, opposed the general's two chief subordinates like tongs of a forceps with which to lay bare and probe Lee's fatal flaw...
...elegant puppet, he lives up to the excellent settings by Rolf Gérard (including a hilarious-looking Dungeon for Recalcitrant Husbands) and he delivers the lines and lyrics of Playwright Maurice Valency's able English adaptation with skilled gusto. In fact, Ritchard is guilty of only one flaw. He has included a cancan that is danced by the corps de ballet in more or less classic white ballet costumes-and a cancan without flashing garters is like a violin without a G string...
...biggest troubles is that the present system operates largely on the theory of "straight-line" depreciation, under which a company deducts a fixed percentage of the cost of its plant each year, e.g., 4% annually for 25 years, until eventually it recovers the full original cost. An obvious flaw in the system is that it makes no allowance for the speeded-up obsolescence caused by the billions going into new product research. As President William G. Laffer of Cleveland's Clevite Corp. says: "In electronics, for example, where there is a fast-changing technology, equipment is frequently outdated...
...loses much as black-and-white viewing, the show's appeal is unique in current programing. Its light comic touch, in both content and style, keeps the most fragile whimsy aloft and should start adults elbowing children for space in front of the set. In fact, its one flaw may be that in reaching adults it loses the younger of the young...
DOUBTING THOMAS, by Winston Brebner. A brief, deceptively simple novel whose hero, a clown, brings a timely reminder that the fatal flaw of any totalitarian regime is its congenitally inhuman disregard of humanity's best impulses...