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...direction is characteristically light and bouncy, a necessity given the heavy-handed theme, but she does not skim over elements of sometimes tragic seriousness. Underlying Lila and Lenny's relationship, as May develops it, is an escalating dynamic of disintegration which lends the humor and fun a keen psychological edge. Lila, for all her obtuseness, senses from the start Lenny's reserve--but he refuses to tell her anything is wrong, to bring it all out in the open, since his trust and confidence in her has been broken. She frantically tries all the harder to communicate and to please...
...hope they bring up a real formidable squad," Cleary said. "We want some keen competition." Harvard has beatem St. Nicholas with relative ease over the past few years, and the only way the game will be of any use to Harvard is if St. Nicholas makes a strong showing...
...scandal? Well, not really, although the Met is under heavy attack for the seemingly high-handed procedures of Director Thomas Moving in selling off various esteemed pictures without the consent of the curators involved (TIME Oct. 16). In this case, the reassessment is largely the result of the keen eye and energetic investigations of a young curator for European paintings, Everett Fahy, 31, whom Moving brought in three years ago. Many European paintings had to be moved to new galleries to make room for Henry Geldzahler's 1970 show of New York painting and sculpture, and the transfers gave...
...Stansky may claim that in an essay like "Such, Such Were the Joys" or a book such as Down and Out in Paris and London Orwell picks and chooses his incidents to make points, distoring his own life to develop a theme. But it does not take an extraordinarily keen intelligence to recognize that any writer does pick and choose events, even biographers such as Abrahams and Stansky...
...TEMPTATION OF JACK ORKNEY AND OTHER STORIES by Doris Lessing. The author of The Golden Notebook moves with keen intelligence over some of the major issues of our time...