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Hitchcock deserves his award. The Busy Martyr is welcome relief from much of the insipid summer fare often presented at straw hat theaters, and is well worth a trip to Medford...

Author: By Steven V. Roberts, | Title: The Busy Martyr | 7/5/1963 | See Source »

...HANDS TURN BLUE, and printed both headline and body type in a sickening shade of blue. In France, the satirical weekly Le Canard Enchame issued a stinging, and dead-serious, rebuke to television. "Commentators spoke in low, vibrato tones to announce the least temperature rise . . . the most insipid details," said the magazine. "All was 'lachryma Christi' of the worst vin tage." In the U.S., on the other hand, New York Journal-American TV Critic Jack O'Brian found coverage "reverent, respectful, thorough and amazingly informative," but he added that it "seemed sacrilegious" when ABC followed a documentary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newspapers: Submerging the Story | 6/14/1963 | See Source »

...Alfredo Ginastera. But if one's scope extends to twentieth century musical ideas and materials, beyond mere rehashings of established techniques, then the HRO has been disturbingly conservative. On examination, most of the contemporary works the HRO has played have been, in style and spirit, pop-concert pablum--insipid and palatable. Almost invariably these works have been well-performed; but more than quality of performance, this community has a right to expect experimentation and education...

Author: By Joel E. Cohen, | Title: HRO Concerto Concert | 5/14/1963 | See Source »

...World War with hysteria and platitudes; his improbable plot is no more than an unwieldy vehicle to parade Wylie's ideas on desegregation, prejudice, sex, miscegenation, brotherly love and a swarm of other fascinating topics. Unfortunately for the novel, Wylie's ideas of these and all other matters are insipid. His book is the dullest piece of writing you can find anywhere on the best-seller list...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hardly A Triumph | 4/25/1963 | See Source »

...that the names, which are hardly subtle ones, and the plot seem to lead to an insipid book cluttered with the no doubt essential references to Kennedy family gags and Soviet impulses to claim all inventions as their own. So they often do. Carter Wilson, who wrote the book, wants to make an invariably temperate and reasonable liberal under fire sound exciting, a difficult job, and Geoffrey Platt struggles hard to spread his unruly paste of comedian's chatter far enough to fill out a major role. Platt is clever...

Author: By Robert W. Gordon, | Title: Tickle Me Pink | 3/14/1963 | See Source »

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