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...HIRELING could never be taken as seriously as it takes itself. Based on a novel by L.P. Hartley, it is cluttered and oppressive with plodding solemnity...
...Hartley's work was better served by Jo seph Losey and Harold Pinter a couple of years back in The Go-Between. Once again, as in The Go-Between, class consciousness induces a terse, desperate kind of sexuality, then thwarts it. But there the similarity ends. Robert Shaw portrays a stolid, ambitious owner of a small hired-car firm. Sarah Miles the balmy aristocrat whom he chauffeurs and who drives hi, in turn, to excess es of frustration. Miles' meager talents, her shrill, spindly posturings, have lost through incessant repetition the small novelty they might once have...
Died. L.P. (for Leslie Poles) Hartley, 76, prolific English novelist whose poised, finely finished story of love between the social classes, The Go-Between, was last year made into a memorable movie; of heart and liver disease; in London...
...clear in the porch shadows what art, if any, he may have seen to create such an interest in clean, abstract imagery, yet his association in these early times with such American artists as John Martin. Georgia O'Keefe, Charles Sheeler, and Marsden Hartley testifies to his following of this parallel art world and its influence is seen plainly in other works. The MFA has eloquently pointed out these connections with its juxtapositions of actual oils, drawings and sculpture by these artists. One of the most exciting comparisons is between Georgia O'Keefe's oil from 1953 at "Abiquiu Trees...
...between PBH and the Faculty of Fine Arts and Sciences. The Study Committee will submit its report to the Faculty during this academic year. According to Dean Whitlock, chairman of the Study Committee and acting chairman of the PBH Faculty Committee, the report will contain the recommendations of Bob Hartley concerning educational ties between PBH and the Faculty. The core of HArtley's suggestions is the proposal that the Faculty hire an educational consultant for PBH at half-time salary. An educational consultant would fulfill four functions...