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...prettiest scenes are those between Fisby and the uniformly lovable natives, who first offer him gifts and finally devo tion. The funniest scenes are those between Fisby and his hidebound, befuddled blockhead of a colonel (well played by Paul Ford). The most individual scenes are those in which David Wayne, as a native interpreter full of peasant wisdom, comes engagingly before the curtain and comments on the story...
...precise Yankee ways, Dr. White, now 66, is no man to be hidebound by conventions. So it was no surprise to his stuffier colleagues when his latest contribution to the New England Journal of Medicine was titled: "The Relation of Heart Size to the Time Intervals of the Heartbeat, with Particular Reference to the Elephant and the Whale." It included notes on the slow heartbeats and long electrocardiograph waves of nine circus elephants, and an account of Dr. White's whale hunt off Alaska last summer when he used harpoons as electrodes to get EKG readings of a wild...
...when A.F.L. Founder Samuel Gompers died, aged 74, after 38 years in the federation's presidency, his heir-expectant was Matthew Woll of the Engravers' Union. But wing-collared Matt Woll was too hidebound a craft unionist for John L. Lewis, then as now president of the United Mine Workers. Lewis knew that he had no chance himself and, besides, he hoped to be U.S. Secretary of Labor in President Coolidge's Cabinet. He put forward the most conservative of his fellow mine union officials, Bill Green, and Green was elected...
...less radically the spirit of open-minded scientific inquiry ... It dictates a rigid, monolithic society which, however benevolent, regiments its members according to an orthodox party line." If Buckley had his way, said Greene, teaching "would become . . . dull, slavish, and uninspired . . . He would transform Yale into the most dogmatic, hidebound institute for orthodox propaganda...
Last summer, at Venice's big Biennale, gallerygoers got a glimpse of a fresher trend in Spanish painting, the work of a stay-at-home named Benjamin Palencia. Palencia's boldly colored, unsophisticated commentaries on Spanish country life were neither hidebound nor self-consciously revolutionary. This spring when Palencia, now 50, had a one-man show at Madrid's Museum of Modern Art, critics boasted: "Spain has a great new painter . . . the richest temperament since Goya...