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...Sleep Till Noon" is far inferior to the author's earlier works. The plot, or rather the gimmick to which the sequence of events is tenuously affixed, is an imbecile's effort to follow the advice of his father: "'Get rich, boy,' he would say, filling his corncob pipe with cigarette buts I had had collected for him during the day. 'Get rich, boy. Then sleep till noon and screw...
...history of women has been a consistent one of struggle against the inferior role which this and past forms of society have placed her in. The right to vote, the right to equal employment, the right to an equal education, all these, to what extent they have been won, have been won through the courageous struggles of women's organizations, and not, as some might wish to believe, by the generosity of the condescending male masters. This right takes its proper place with the fight for Negro rights and the fight for better working conditions which have all been...
...Logan & Leland Hayward) converts Chekhov's 19th Century Russian landowners into turn-of-the-century Louisiana gentlefolk. Thereafter there are perhaps as many subtle differences between The Wisteria Trees and The Cherry Orchard as there are obvious resemblances. The difference that matters most: The Wisteria Trees is immeasurably inferior...
...always finds tickets hard to get. Australia's J. 0. Makin is the most devoted theatergoer (he has sat through Anne of the Thousand Days four times), possibly because in his youth he wanted to be an actor himself. Britain's Alexander Cadogan found American plays rather inferior; as for recent movies he liked best, they were Henry V., Hamlet and Fallen Idol; when Cadogan thought about it, he realized that all three of them were British. As for T. S. Eliot's Cocktail Party (TIME, Jan. 30), Cadogan found some of it a bit difficult...
...Just a Housewife." As a result, women have clung to the "biologically fantastic notion that to be different from men is to be inferior to men." Having no respect for themselves, they seem to prefer to have men speak at their clubs, to work for male bosses, and to vote for a second-rate man in an election rather than a first-rate woman. Since they no longer churn the butter, make the candles, plow the fields, or even bring their husbands a dowry, they are deeply plagued by a "sense of parasitism...