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...success. Colgate Salsbury, in the mountainous title role, takes a rather original approach to his part. His Hamlet is not so much a melancholy Dane as strong hero caught in an overwhelming situation. This helps make fast-moving parts of the play more striking but tends to weaken the inward-turning soliloquies. Hamlet's towering intellect comes through, but the troubled depths behind it are not always apparent...
...cynical and shiftless lush, the 23-year-old O'Neill an unconfident and consumptive fledgling writer. Nothing happens: four people merely taunt and bludgeon and resent one another while slowly, and at length explosively, revealing themselves. The play's movement is not forward, but downward and inward. In bedeviling propinquity, the drunken and the drugged exhibit spectral moments of love and convulsive moments of guilt, make accusations that are in effect confessions, go in for cruelties that are spewings of self-hate. Endlessly they go on saying the same things, while yet blurting out things not meant...
...Kefauver handshake has deservedly become a national monument. It is not bone-crushing, or even firm. It is limp but not clammy. An inward turn of the wrist prevents pressure that would later cause aches and pains. Unlike Adlai Stevenson, Kefauver does not chatter as he shakes; he utters one friendly sentence and reaches for the next hand. As he shakes with his right hand, he applies a light pressure with his left on his well-wisher's right elbow, thus keeping the line moving. When someone launches an extended conversation, Kefauver seems to give undivided attention...
...smile of inward...
...done in a great, windowless factory on the desert outside Tucson, Ariz. No speck of dust can be tolerated. The air is changed by fans and filters every nine minutes, and positive air pressure is maintained inside the building so that any air leakage will be outward, not inward. Engineers in the drafting rooms are forbidden to tear paper or use pencil erasers (both make dust), and all employees must wear nylon smocks. Among the best assembly workers are crippled men and women who are accustomed to sitting long hours without unnecessary motion...