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...allusions to others are not disconcerting but enhancing, for the most part. One of the few unsettling references in all of these reviews emerges in her long evaluation of Adrienne Rich's Diving Into the Wreck. In it, she compares Rich's work to that of Stevens, and George Herbert. Knowing that Vendler has written books on both of these poets mars our impression of Rich, and of Vendler. It indicates that she has Stevens and Herbert constantly on the brain...
That overheard conversation so appalled Pryor that he began studying the use of outside consultants by the Government. Today he is the foremost congressional expert, and critic, on the subject. As chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Civil Service and General Services, Pryor joined Democratic Congressman Herbert Harris II of Virginia, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Human Resources, to dig up some facts. During the past two weeks they have held joint hearings on the abuses and weaknesses of federal consultant programs. At the same time, the General Accounting Office released a devastating study on the subject. Says Harris...
DIED. Stanley Reed, 95, Supreme Court Justice from 1938 to 1957; in a nursing home in Huntington, N.Y. The lanky, aristocratic Reed made his name as a farm cooperative law expert in his native Kentucky before Herbert Hoover tapped him to be general counsel of the Federal Farm Board in 1929. Named to the high court by Franklin D. Roosevelt, he was known as a quietly reliable supporter of New Deal and civil rights legislation, and a wild card on most other issues...
...record the preparations in a funny, breezy documentary, Opening NightThe Making of an Opera. The camera roams in wig shops and rehearsal rooms, where Baritone Norman Mittelman after fluffing a line complains that the composer wrote it wrong. At the shaky dress rehearsal Kurt Herbert Adler, 75, the company's director, notes, at that late hour, that the chorus is posi tioned so that ticketholders on the right cannot see the action in a big scene...
...Under Herbert Ross's assured hand, the actors perform with impeccable honesty. Leibman moves from farcical jocularity to bleeding anguish. In a sketchy role, Van Patten displays warming femininity. When she is not biting into a juicy comic line, Manoff clings like a valorous terrier to her prey of hope...