Word: glossing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With the exception of Williams' article, the recent special issue of Cambridge 38 presents a fairly solid, informative introduction to African political and economic problems. All sixteen articles are of course couched in general terms, and gloss over important differences between African states. I found Martin Kilson's study of single-party governments most interesting; it is a concise explanation of the authoritarian single-party system, which, the author rightly concludes, "will become a general pattern in African states." A second most interesting contributing is the article on African law, by Boston lawyer Archibald McColl, which, like Elliot Berg...
...along with what is striking and amusing, there ensues too much babble of talk and muddle of tone. It is here that the matter of production becomes crucial: a play so nonchalant and brittle needs more than the intelligent off-Broadway staging it has been given. It needs more gloss, more speed, more edged insouciance, needs the light shrug, the swift glance, the faint smile, the finished gesture, the unfinished comment that endow the semi-frivolous with airiness and enlarge the semi-serious into an attitude...
Circulate (Neil Sedaka; RCA Victor). A first album by one of the more promising talents to emerge from the pop thickets in recent years. Singer Sedaka mercifully prefers his songs ungimmicked. and he gives a fine, fresh gloss to numbers such as All the Way, We Kiss in a Shadow, Everything Happens to Me. A songwriter as well as performer, Sedaka contributes a ballad with a better-than-average literacy count: I Found My World...
Kippers & Champagne. Like Olivier, Finney is immensely versatile, is as good in modern plays as costume drama, and has a range of diction from Queen's English to Britannic Brando. But he has none of the smooth gloss of the classical acting tradition. He is relentlessly naturalistic, and his technique seldom shows on the surface. Like Look Back in Anger's star, Kenneth Haigh, Finney typifies the antiromantic, non-U hero who has emerged from the new social realism of the British theater. But as the rough and uneducated Arthur Seaton, a Nottingham lathe operator who fairly hums...
Songs and Fun with the Baby Sitters (Vanguard). This winning semipro quartet gives one the sensation of visiting with rather than listening to. Giving off an air of artless improvisation, they intertwine pretend games, traditional ballads and "activity songs." Low on actorish gloss, the Baby Sitters are as soft sell as a lullaby and just about perfect for the just-out-of-the-nursery...