Word: harped
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...Nelson), the loan of a Pontiac, and a shower of presents ranging from vacuum cleaners and gas ranges to silverware and cigarette lighters. The ceremony itself is whipped through in something under four minutes. The rest of the 15-minute program is devoted to music by an organ, a harp and a sentimental baritone, a quick rehash of the boy-meets-girl details of the particular romance, and to some intensive selling of the products of Sponsor General Mills (Bisquick, Crustquick, Party cake...
...Grass Harp (by Truman Capote) gives forth, for a time, a tremulous, delicate music, catching in a special world of its own some of the deep longings of the real world. But the music falters: in dramatizing his novel, Capote has told a stagier story, and brought in more themes than he can orchestrate or develop...
...Jetmobile, built by Richard Harp, 27, a hot rodder from Boonsboro, Md. He spent two years and $2,500 on his three-wheeled car, whose body is made of three airplane belly gasoline tanks. With a Lycoming 75-horsepower aircraft engine in the rear, it can do an estimated 120 m.p.h...
...Grass Harp--Truman Capote's adaptation of his novel is a sensitive, poetic drama, but still needs a good deal of polishing. At the Colonial...
...story of The Grass Harp revolves around an emotional conflict between two middle aged spinsters, the Misses Dolly and Varena Talbo, who live in a small town with her nephew. Dolly discovers that her domineering sister wants to exploit a secret Dropsy cure that she had discovered, and she promptly bundles off her nephew and the cook to a tree house in a nearby forest...